Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] ASoC: Intel: ACPI support and machines

[Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 09:15:10AM +0000, Liam Girdwood wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 11:05 +0200, Jarkko Nikula wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > On 11/04/2014 10:25 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:09:40AM +0200, Jarkko Nikula wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I think there is need to have some consolidation with current
> > >> byt-rt5640 and byt-max98090. Since existing drivers and this set are
> > >> using the same ACPI IDs "80860F28" for the ADSP and "10EC5640" codec
> > >> ACPIID for the machine driver probing these drivers won't work
> > >> together.
> > > Liam's suggestion was to remove the current driver when all the bits are
> > > upstream
> 
> I think we need to keep the original driver around a bit longer until
> the new driver is stable on rambi and other platforms the old driver
> supports atm. A that point we can depricate the original driver with a
> view to eventual removal.
Yes agreed, taht would help

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~Vinod

> > Yeah, I'm not against it but we must avoid regressions and perhaps try 
> > to do seamless handover if possible. It's always more nice to find 
> > regression in a small than big patch when bisecting :-)
> > 
> 
> Liam
> 

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