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.