linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add SoundCard driver for OKI SEMICONDUCTOR ML7213 IOH

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Date:	Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:38:18 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya-linux@....lapis-semi.com>
Cc:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, perex@...ex.cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Wang, Qi" <qi.wang@...el.com>,
	"Wang, Yong Y" <yong.y.wang@...el.com>,
	"Clark, Joel" <joel.clark@...el.com>,
	"Ewe, Kok Howg" <kok.howg.ewe@...el.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add SoundCard driver for OKI SEMICONDUCTOR ML7213 IOH

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 06:03:53PM +0900, Tomoya MORINAGA wrote:

So, I started looking at this but...

> struct snd_ml7213i2s_pcm {
> 	enum snd_soc_control_type control_type;
> 	struct snd_ml7213i2s *ml7213i2s;
> 	spinlock_t lock;
> 	unsigned int irq_pos;
> 	unsigned int buf_pos;
> 	struct snd_pcm_substream *substream;
> 	struct cbdata cbd;              /* i2s callback info */
> 	unsigned int channels;
> 	unsigned int rw;
> 	unsigned int rate;
> 	unsigned int ch;
> 	unsigned int setup_flag;
> 	unsigned int format;
> 	unsigned int bclkfs;
> 	struct mutex i2c_mutex;
> };

...this looks *really* confused, there's things in here which are a mix
of DMA controller and CODEC driver things.  The CODEC and DMA drivers
shouldn't know anything about each other, let alone be referencing the
same data structure.

> /*
>  * wm8731 register cache
>  * We can't read the WM8731 register space when we are
>  * using 2 wire for device control, so we cache them instead.
>  * There is no point in caching the reset register
>  */
> static const u16 wm8731_reg[WM8731_CACHEREGNUM] = {
> 	0x0097, 0x0097, 0x0079, 0x0079,
> 	0x000a, 0x0008, 0x009f, 0x000a,
> 	0x0000, 0x0000
> };

This is is just obviously wrong for this driver.  I stopped reading the
code at this point.
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