From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] [ALSA] Add ASoC drivers for the Freescale MPC8610 SoC Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:08:36 -0600 Message-ID: <47878674.7010705@freescale.com> References: <12000050651235-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <12000050664035-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <12000050682718-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <4786A650.2080107@freescale.com> <20080111002450.GA13291@lixom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from de01egw01.freescale.net (de01egw01.freescale.net [192.88.165.102]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324032449D for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:08:45 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20080111002450.GA13291@lixom.net> 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: Olof Johansson Cc: Grant Likely , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Olof Johansson wrote: > Having been in a similar situation myself (needing to share resources > between DMA, ethernet and function offload), I recommend creating a > separate small library that all those drivers use, instead of making > some sort of dependency between drivers in completely different parts > of the kernel. Well, the DMA driver should be in soon. Actually, it should be in now, because I saw a blurb in this month's Linux Journal about it. As soon as I find it :-), I'll post a new patch that adds arbitration. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale