linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv1 1/7] ASoC: simple-card: Merge single and muti DAI link code.

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Date:	Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:13:56 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:	Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@...escale.com>, lgirdwood@...il.com,
	perex@...ex.cz, tiwai@...e.de, kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com,
	moinejf@...e.fr, jsarha@...com, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, shawn.guo@...escale.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv1 1/7] ASoC: simple-card: Merge single and muti DAI link
 code.

On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 03:34:12PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 12:29:35PM +0800, Xiubo Li wrote:
> > This patch merge single DAI link and muti-DAI links code together,
> > and simply the simple-card driver code.

> It would be good to note that this breaks the Binary API with DT
> blobs. Old blobs will not work with this new C code.

That's not on, we need to maintian compatibility with the old DTs unless
there's a very strong reason not to.  Revising the binding is one option
for doing this, keeping the old binding in place and making a v2 binding
with the new functionality.

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