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Mark Brown wrote:

> ASoC v1 supports loading drivers as modules (and this is fairly heavily
> used), though as you say the MPC8610 drivers don't support that.

Well, at the time I wrote the drivers, I didn't see an easy way to support
modules, since V1 drivers typically have lots of hard-coded references to global
 variables in other files.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale