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    SubjectRe: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Add Wolfson Microelectronics WM8776 codec ALSA driver
    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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