Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:52:49 +0200 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Add Wolfson Microelectronics WM8776 codec ALSA driver |
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At Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:50:06 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 06:32:18PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Mark Brown wrote: > > > > What makes you cleaim that "ASoC was not designed to be used with sound > > > cards"? Implementing sound cards is the sole purpose of ASoC... > > > You don't need to overreact, he surely means only about the existing > > ice1724 sound driver for his device :) > > Possibly... it's really not clear. > > > Restructuring ice1712 and ice1724 drivers to use ASoC would require > > quite a lot of works, and no one really wants it, I guess. Many > > boards are old and can't be tested easily. And, we still need to > > match the ASoC components with the controls of the current driver. > > > This was already discussed a bit, and Clemens suggested like this > > way. > > This isn't just adding something into a specific driver which fails at > abstraction, it's adding generic code. If it were adding something to > the ice17xx driver then that'd be one thing but look at the subject line > and location of the file... this stuff should be buried inside the > driver if it's too painful to make the driver sane.
The codes in sound/i2c are mostly oly for ice1712/ice1724 drivers after all... They could be used by others, but I don't think there will be any more at this point.
Takashi
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