Re: Splitting up the HDA-INTEL modules

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:36:34 +0100,
Marco Schuster wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> when I looked today through the files of the snd-hda-intel module, I
> was a bit shocked by this complex amount of code (patch_realtek.c for
> example). I would think about splitting up the code in a way each
> chipset gets its own .c file - which will make debugging, patching or
> editing a lot easier IMO, and for second people can then comment on
> just their specific chipset in config.
> 
> What do you think about this?
> 
> Marco
> 
> PS: If there are no objections, I'll start working on realtek.c on
> weekend.

Cons:

-  Too many kernel configs are also no preferred option.  I already
  splitted up to several configs, and I got many stupid bug reports.

- Moving the code makes hard to track the changes, especially the
  regression between versions.

I'm strongly for the solution with the user-space setup tool.
The project was stopped simply because of my lack of time.


Takashi