linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 4/9] ASoC: sun4i-i2s: Reduce quirks for sun8i-h3

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Date:   Tue, 4 Jun 2019 11:33:12 +0200
From:   Code Kipper <codekipper@...il.com>
To:     Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        linux-sunxi <linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-ALSA <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
        "Andrea Venturi (pers)" <be17068@...rbole.bo.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/9] ASoC: sun4i-i2s: Reduce quirks for sun8i-h3

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 09:46, Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 07:47:30PM +0200, codekipper@...il.com wrote:
> > From: Marcus Cooper <codekipper@...il.com>
> >
> > We have a number of flags used to identify the functionality
> > of the IP block found on the sun8i-h3 and later devices. As it
> > is only neccessary to identify this new block then replace
> > these flags with just one.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marcus Cooper <codekipper@...il.com>
>
> This carries exactly the same meaning than the compatible, so this is
> entirely redundant.
>
> The more I think of it, the more I fell like we should have function
> pointers instead, and have hooks to deal with these kind of things.
>
> I've been working a lot on that driver recently, and there's some many
> parameters and regmap_fields that it becomes pretty hard to work on.
Hi Maxime,
let's sync with what you're doing as you're more lightly to see it
through to delivery!
I was trying to clean up the driver as some of this seemed a bit unnecessary,
hooks sounds like the way forward,
CK
>
> Maxime
>
> --
> Maxime Ripard, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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