On Fri, 2020-08-14 at 13:37 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 05:21:40PM +0000, Sridharan, Ranjani wrote: > > Hi Mark/Takashi, > > Please fix your mail client to word wrap within paragraphs at > something > substantially less than 80 columns. Doing this makes your messages > much > easier to read and reply to. > > > What would your recommendation be to get around this problem in > > SOF? Thanks for your help. > > Actively using the dummy CODEC at runtime isn't a great idea at the > best > of times, things would be a lot easier if you used something with > actual > audio paths for testing - as far as I can see the issue is that > you've > told the system that there's nothing connected which is reasonably > being > interpreted as there being no need to power anything on. If you > intend > this to represent an actual connection it would be better to use a > simple CODEC with no software control rather than something that > explicitly means there is nothing connected. Thanks, Mark. But I am still confused by what you mean by a simple codec here. Would this simple codec be registered by the SOF platform driver? Thanks, Ranjani