From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ondrej Zary Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add Wolfson Microelectronics WM8776 codec ALSA driver Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:13:40 +0200 Message-ID: <201204171813.44044.linux@rainbow-software.org> References: <1334611118-10301-1-git-send-email-linux@rainbow-software.org> <1334611118-10301-4-git-send-email-linux@rainbow-software.org> <20120417150234.GB22575@sirena.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.atlantis.sk (mail-1-out2.atlantis.sk [80.94.52.71]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7CB41042DD for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:14:06 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20120417150234.GB22575@sirena.org.uk> Content-Disposition: inline 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: Mark Brown Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Tuesday 17 April 2012 17:02:34 Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:18:37PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote: > > Needed by Philips PSC724 subdriver. The code does not contain any > > card-specific bits so it can be used by any other ALSA driver. > > Same comments as the previous patch, this should be using ASoC. In this > case the device has in fact been supported in mainline since 2.6.32... Yes, the driver is there - but I dont's see any way to use it. ASoC was not designed to be used with sound cards and nobody has ever used any ASoC driver in a sound card driver. I don't feel like breaking a working driver (with 16 subdrivers for many more card types). -- Ondrej Zary