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

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Message-ID: <20120417161820.GP6652@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:18:21 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
Cc:	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add Wolfson Microelectronics WM8776 codec ALSA driver

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...

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