From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH] Palm interrupt driven touchscreen driver Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:37:37 +0100 Message-ID: <20090604093737.GF6983@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> References: <200906032341.03266.marek.vasut@gmail.com> <20090604085407.GB6983@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com (opensource.wolfsonmicro.com [80.75.67.52]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C0A103929 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 11:37:38 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Marek Vasut , ALSA development , Eric Miao , linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, Russell King - ARM Linux List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:09:34AM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote: >> As I've said a number of times before AC97 does not support platform >> data and the ALSA guys blocked adding it. > We're not blocking adding more data to AC97 structures. We just blocked > adding new variable when it's not used. There was a very strong pushback against the idea of adding a void * to the structure, which is what I'd be looking for. > In other words - send a driver code using this variable with the variable > addition to the ALSA AC97 structure. IIRC the original posting had something along with it? As far as examples go things like drivers/power/wm97xx_battery.c are already in tree and pretty much ready to use platform data if it became available.