Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] ALSA: jack: Refactoring for jack kctls

[David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>]

On 2015-04-08 16:14, Jie, Yang wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Takashi Iwai [mailto:tiwai@suse.de]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 5:22 PM
>> To: Jie, Yang
>> Cc: David Henningsson; alsa-devel@alsa-project.org; broonie@kernel.org;
>> Girdwood, Liam R
>> Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v4 0/5] ALSA: jack: Refactoring for jack kctls
>>
>> At Wed, 8 Apr 2015 09:18:10 +0000,
>> Jie, Yang wrote:
>>> OK, then it may make life easier.  Hi Takashi, you agree with this?
>>> Do we need add those kctls to the HDA codec, or to hda_nid_item?
>>
>> It's been added in the local list to manage the kctls belonging to a codec more
>> easily.  But if snd_hda_codec_free() and _reset() can remove them
>> gracefully, there is no big reason to keep tracking there.
>>
>
> I am not sure if snd_hda_codec_free() and _reset() can remove them, with
> removing tracking them in HDA codec in my current patch series. To be more
> simply and safely, I just keep this old tracking ATM, and we can add patch
> to optimize them later if needed, do you agree?

Is it possible for the snd_jack object to own its kctls, so when 
snd_jack_dev_free is called, that would free the kctls too? Or at least 
have some kind of flag that would allow snd_jack_free to also delete its 
associated kctls?

(And then snd_hda_codec_reset/free would end up calling snd_jack_dev_free.)

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