Re: [RFC PATCH] ASoC: soc-core: use the device tree card name as long_name

On Tue May 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM PDT, Val Packett wrote:
> When setting the model property for the sound card on an OF/DT system,
> the expectation is that that model name would be used in the UCM config
> path lookup. However, the DT model name was only used as the "short"
> name, which gets overriden by the "long" name during loading, and
> the "long" name is automatically set based on DMI data if available.
> As a result, adding an intermediate bootloader such as U-Boot which
> provides DMI data on a device that didn't have it before would break
> the UCM config loading by suddenly looking at the "wrong" path.
>
> Fix by assigning the DT model name to the long_name field as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Val Packett <[email protected]>
> ---

Thanks for the patch! This fixed audio on my Google Pixel 3a, which booted the
7.1.3 kernel (on postmarketOS) via u-boot.

-Clayton

Tested-by: Clayton Craft <[email protected]>