From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars-Peter Clausen Subject: Re: Abouut adv7511 driver Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:43:00 +0200 Message-ID: <55BB2704.4070509@metafoo.de> References: <87zj2cvqi7.wl%kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87zj2cvqi7.wl%kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Cc: Mark Brown , alsa-devel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Cc: alsa-ml On 07/31/2015 07:38 AM, Kuninori Morimoto wrote: > > Hi Lars > Cc Mark > > I noticed Analog Devices has adv7511 support on > http://wiki.analog.com/resources/tools-software/linux-drivers/drm/adv7511 > > And I tried this driver on my board, and it works. > > if my understanding was correct, latest linux kernel doesn't have > adv7511 "sound" support yet. > Thus, I would like to have it on linux kernel. > According to this driver/file, it is under GPL-2, so it is no problem > from license point of view. > > According to git log Signd-off-by, Lars/Mark are listed on this adv7511 sound driver. > but I wonder why it is not on upstream ? Are there some reason ?? > If you don't mind, I would like to send it to ML. > This is OK ? The reason why the driver is not upstream at the moment is that the way it implements things is definitely not the right way. But there is still a lot of discussion on what actually is the right way to implement audio support for HDMI devices. Once that has been sorted out the driver will hopefully go upstream. - Lars -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe alsa-devel" in