linux-kernel - Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: dwc: disallow building designware

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Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:25:52 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>,
        Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@...sk>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: dwc: disallow building designware_pcm
 as a module

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:24:14PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:

> > I think forcing this to be built in to the kernel (which is what the
> > commit message says the change is going to do) is an obviously bad
> > idea.  Anything we add to the base kernel image needs to have a good
> > reason to be there and it is hard to think what that reason might be for
> > any audio driver, we need to be able to put this code into a module.

> Well, I guess the original patch description caused a big confusion.
> As far as I see, the intention of the patch is not about the module or
> built-in kernel.  Instead it's rather to fold designware_pcm stuff
> into the single designware_i2s driver.

Ah, right.  That'd be fine.

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