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From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] ASoC: hda - add ASoC HDA codec
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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 17:55:55 +0530
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On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 11:38:43AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 10:35:04AM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 06:35:03PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 01:45:44PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> 
> > > > well userspace parsing is only for the pin mapping and changes which
> > > > users want to do on their systems. For basic things the default graph
> > > > will be read by existing HDA parser and codec driver will create
> > > > widgets based on that. The generic HDA codec library should do most and
> > > > the HDA ASoC codecs should do device specfic work (like existing
> > > > patch_xxx)
> 
> > > So we *are* planning to continue to use the existing CODEC support but
> > > with some different interfacing on top of it?
> 
> > Nope. Existing codecs wont be reused here.
> 
> > We are doing new ASoC HDA codec drivers which use common hdac parsing logic.
> > Since some codecs need own methods we can't write a single HDA generic
> > codec, and had to do with generic codec parser and then specfic driver
> > (HDMI, ALC to start with) on top.
> 
> But I thought we already had a generic CODEC parser?  Are you saying
> you're going to write a new one?
No I meant we are going to use shiny new HDAC codec parser and build ASoC
HDA codecs which use this new parser.

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~Vinod