From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] make the sgtl5000-codec work Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:59:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20110719165707.GL9652@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <20110719090404.GD1951@pengutronix.de> <20110719151337.GG9652@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20110719164639.GA22987@pengutronix.de> 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 DF3262437D for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:59:56 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110719164639.GA22987@pengutronix.de> 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: Wolfram Sang Cc: Zeng Zhaoming , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Dong Aisheng , Zeng Zhaoming List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 06:46:39PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 04:13:37PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > The only reason steps are ever used is for AC'97 devices which don't use > > the generic cache code as they're pretty much obsolete so the framework > > support is mostly just carried around as legacy. The step size is used > > in the cache display code which does use it. If someone was interested > > enough to convert AC'97 over that'd be nice. > I am a bit confused now: Do you want to retire the step size in the long run? > Then my sgtl-patch might be the right approach after all. Err, no. I'm saying there's no current use of step size in the soc-cache code because no modern hardware has any need for it.