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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/platform.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/platform.txt
index b681d17fc38..3a08a2c9150 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/platform.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/platform.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
ASoC Platform Driver
====================
-An ASoC platform driver can be divided into audio DMA and SoC DAI configuration
-and control. The platform drivers only target the SoC CPU and must have no board
-specific code.
+An ASoC platform driver class can be divided into audio DMA drivers, SoC DAI
+drivers and DSP drivers. The platform drivers only target the SoC CPU and must
+have no board specific code.
Audio DMA
=========
@@ -20,9 +20,10 @@ struct snd_soc_ops {
int (*trigger)(struct snd_pcm_substream *, int);
};
-The platform driver exports its DMA functionality via struct snd_soc_platform:-
+The platform driver exports its DMA functionality via struct
+snd_soc_platform_driver:-
-struct snd_soc_platform {
+struct snd_soc_platform_driver {
char *name;
int (*probe)(struct platform_device *pdev);
@@ -34,12 +35,19 @@ struct snd_soc_platform {
int (*pcm_new)(struct snd_card *, struct snd_soc_codec_dai *, struct snd_pcm *);
void (*pcm_free)(struct snd_pcm *);
+ /*
+ * For platform caused delay reporting.
+ * Optional.
+ */
+ snd_pcm_sframes_t (*delay)(struct snd_pcm_substream *,
+ struct snd_soc_dai *);
+
/* platform stream ops */
struct snd_pcm_ops *pcm_ops;
};
Please refer to the ALSA driver documentation for details of audio DMA.
-http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/c436.htm
+http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/
An example DMA driver is soc/pxa/pxa2xx-pcm.c
@@ -56,3 +64,16 @@ Each SoC DAI driver must provide the following features:-
5) Suspend and resume (optional)
Please see codec.txt for a description of items 1 - 4.
+
+
+SoC DSP Drivers
+===============
+
+Each SoC DSP driver usually supplies the following features :-
+
+ 1) DAPM graph
+ 2) Mixer controls
+ 3) DMA IO to/from DSP buffers (if applicable)
+ 4) Definition of DSP front end (FE) PCM devices.
+
+Please see DPCM.txt for a description of item 4.