linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add Wolfson Microelectronics WM8776 codec ALSA driver

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:13:40 +0200
From:	Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add Wolfson Microelectronics WM8776 codec ALSA driver

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
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/