linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] ALSA: ac97: split out the generic ac97 registers

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Date:	Thu, 05 May 2016 21:46:10 +0200
From:	Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...il.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] ALSA: ac97: split out the generic ac97 registers

Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> writes:

> On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 09:06:44PM +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
>> Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> writes:
>
>> > I see that, I just don't know why that helps.
>> In order to have a clean split between former ac97 bus implementation and this
>> new one, I didn't want to include any former ac97 includes, excepting in
>> sound/ac97/compat.c.
>
> It's probably a good idea to articulate some of this in the commit log
> then!
Fair point, I'll improve that.

>> This transition will be easier if the new ac97 code is isolated as much as
>> possible from the former code while providing backward compatibility ... hence
>> this patch.
>
> It'd probably have been clearer to me if it were splitting out all the
> register definitions rather than just some of them.
Euh unless I'm missing something I have splitted out all the ac97 generic
registers AFAIK. The only remaining ones are chip specific which I didn't take
as they should be in codec specific code and not ac97 generic one.

Cheers.

-- 
Robert