Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:32:18 +0200 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Add Wolfson Microelectronics WM8776 codec ALSA driver |
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At Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:18:21 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 06:13:40PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 April 2012 17:02:34 Mark Brown wrote: > > > > 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). > > What makes you cleaim that "ASoC was not designed to be used with sound > cards"? Implementing sound cards is the sole purpose of ASoC...
You don't need to overreact, he surely means only about the existing ice1724 sound driver for his device :)
Restructuring ice1712 and ice1724 drivers to use ASoC would require quite a lot of works, and no one really wants it, I guess. Many boards are old and can't be tested easily. And, we still need to match the ASoC components with the controls of the current driver.
This was already discussed a bit, and Clemens suggested like this way.
thanks,
Takashi
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