Re: [PATCH 0/4] ASoC: Intel: Skylake: Add token support for topology data

[Mengdong Lin <mengdong.lin@linux.intel.com>]

On 08/12/2016 06:55 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:41:07AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:29:49PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
>>> With topology changes in alsa-lib, driver data for modules can now be
>>> passed in topology conf file using tuples.
>>>
>>> These changes allow private data to represented by tuples of type UUID,
>>> byte, short, word and strings.
>>
>> A question I ask quite often: the topology code has been in mainline
>> since v4.2 but still has a big old #error at the top preventing any
>> actual use from userspace.  We're now more than a year after the code
>> was originally merged and still no patches to actually make this ABI
>> usable from userspace.  Where are we at with that?
>
> Mengdong was working on last set of features for providing DAIlinks. After
> that we dont have any more updates planned on topology API.

There will be 2 more series to bring some topology ABI update. The code 
is ready and verified. And we will not modify ABI to break backward 
compatibility after this.

>
> So I think we cna remove it for current cycle. Mengdong cna you please
> confirm..

I think we may remove those #error after this cycle of upstreaming. 
We'll resume the patch upstreaming this week.

Thanks
Mengdong