From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCHv3 3/4] Add ASoC support for DevKit8000 Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:42:28 +0000 Message-ID: <20100211164227.GA18464@sirena.org.uk> References: <1265829784-19224-1-git-send-email-swirl@gmx.li> <1265885388.3179.8.camel@odin> <20100211131418.9521c603.jhnikula@gmail.com> <201002111702.54783.peter.ujfalusi@nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201002111702.54783.peter.ujfalusi@nokia.com> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Ujfalusi Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, "Valkeinen Tomi (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" , Thomas Weber , "weber@corscience.de" , "tony@atomride.com" , "Balbi Felipe (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , Liam Girdwood List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 05:02:54PM +0200, Peter Ujfalusi wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010 13:14:18 ext Jarkko Nikula wrote: > > Yeah, after thinking twice, we don't have zillions of options for e.g. > > Intel HDA either. If we ever figure out some common OMAP+TWL4030 > Well, I really doubt that we can find a way to have a common driver for this > combination. You can attach quite a big variety of amps to the outputs (some > controlled with GPIO, some like the tpa6130 has i2c interface, etc). > To have some kind of "infrastructure" to support all of the possible scenarios > is just does not worth the effort IMHO. On the other hand there's probably going to be a bunch of boards which can use the same driver by virtue of having copied the audio subsystem en masse from one of the reference designs.