From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756308Ab2DQQOK (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:14:10 -0400 Received: from mail-1-out2.atlantis.sk ([80.94.52.71]:43972 "EHLO mail.atlantis.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755863Ab2DQQOI (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:14:08 -0400 From: Ondrej Zary To: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add Wolfson Microelectronics WM8776 codec ALSA driver Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:13:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1334611118-10301-1-git-send-email-linux@rainbow-software.org> <1334611118-10301-4-git-send-email-linux@rainbow-software.org> <20120417150234.GB22575@sirena.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120417150234.GB22575@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201204171813.44044.linux@rainbow-software.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 17 April 2012 17:02:34 Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:18:37PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote: > > Needed by Philips PSC724 subdriver. The code does not contain any > > card-specific bits so it can be used by any other ALSA driver. > > Same comments as the previous patch, this should be using ASoC. In this > case the device has in fact been supported in mainline since 2.6.32... Yes, the driver is there - but I dont's see any way to use it. ASoC was not designed to be used with sound cards and nobody has ever used any ASoC driver in a sound card driver. I don't feel like breaking a working driver (with 16 subdrivers for many more card types). -- Ondrej Zary