On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 17:14 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 09:07:04AM -0700, Ranjani Sridharan wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 12:40 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > > I would not expect driver names to be unique, you can have > > > multiple > > > instances of the same device on a board for example when two mono > > > speaker drivers are used for stereo playback. > > Maybe I misunderstood your comment in the previous thread then, > > Mark. > > https://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2020-April/166665.html > > Did you mean to say that the individual drivers should do this > > check > > before registering multiple platform components to make sure they > > are > > unique? > > That was in the context of a single DAI link, not the system as a > whole, > and only for platform drivers not DAIs. Ahh, got it. So, maybe I should add this check when adding platform components to the pcm runtime for the DAI link? Thanks, Ranjani