From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:34358 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755007Ab1A3XYD (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:24:03 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:23:59 +0100 From: Samuel Ortiz To: "Matti J. Aaltonen" Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, lrg@slimlogic.co.uk, mchehab@redhat.com, hverkuil@xs4all.nl, linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: WL1273 FM Radio driver... Message-ID: <20110130232358.GD2565@sortiz-mobl> References: <1295363063.25951.67.camel@masi.mnp.nokia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1295363063.25951.67.camel@masi.mnp.nokia.com> List-ID: Sender: Hi Matti, On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 05:04:23PM +0200, Matti J. Aaltonen wrote: > Hello > > I have been trying to get the WL1273 FM radio driver into the kernel for > some time. It has been kind of difficult, one of the reasons is that I > didn't realize I should have tried to involve all relevant maintainers > to the discussion form the beginning (AsoC, Media and MFD). At Mark's > suggestion I'm trying to reopen the discussion now. > > The driver consists of an MFD core and two child drivers (the audio > codec and the V4L2 driver). And the question is mainly about the role of > the MFD driver: the original design had the IO functions in the core. > Currently the core is practically empty mainly because Mauro very > strongly wanted to have “everything” in the V4L2 driver. What was Mauro main concerns with having the IO part in the core ? A lot of MFD drivers are going that path already. Cheers, Samuel. -- Intel Open Source Technology Centre http://oss.intel.com/