linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] ASoC: Add platforms directory

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Message-ID: <20171206123908.GB1827@finisterre>
Date:   Wed, 6 Dec 2017 12:39:08 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] ASoC: Add platforms directory

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 12:14:46PM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> Platform ASoC drivers are a lot like ASoC CODEC drivers in that they
> both are independent pieces of a sound device, or "machine". Platform
> drivers should be free of CODEC specifics and visa-versa. Both are then
> used by the the "machine" driver to form the complete sound device.
> This forms a hierarchy that makes it natural to group platform drivers
> into their own directory, much like we group CODEC drivers already.

This seems like a step backwards, and your current patch set only does
this for the TI drivers anyway.  Currently we have things split up by IP
holder, with machine drivers that have some platform specifics grouped
together with the matching IP drivers that may also share some platform
specific considerations.  This would group all the IP drivers together
and separate them from the machine drivers they work in concert with for
no obvious benefit.

If you want to make a common directory for TI stuff do that, there's no
need to mess up all the other platforms to do that though.

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