[alsa-devel] conversion of opti93x driver to use cs4231-lib

Jaroslav Kysela perex at perex.cz
Tue Jan 8 16:15:28 CET 2008


On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Rene Herman wrote:

> On 08-01-08 12:38, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> Jaroslav -- do you know/remember why opti93x didn't use cs4231-lib?
> 
> > At Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:08:01 +0100,
> > Krzysztof Helt wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I posted some time ago two patches which converts opti93x driver to use cs4231-lib library. 
> >>
> >> The opti93x chips are almost compatible with the cs4231 differing mostly by mixer.
> >>
> >> This change greatly reduces the source of the opti drivers.
> >>
> >> Here are patches:
> >> [addition of opti93x details to the cs4231-lib]
> >> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2007-September/003395.html
> >>
> >> and 
> >> [conversion of opti93x driver to use cs4231-lib]
> >> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2007-September/003396.html
> >>
> >> I will rediff the second patch as there were some changes to opti93x driver after sending the patch.
> >>
> >> If it is not a good idea to do such conversion, please reply and drop patches.
> > 
> > The only concern is whether this breaks the workign opti9xx stuff.
> > If someone can confirm it's OK, then I'm 100% for these patches.
> > 
> > Added Rene to Cc to hear his opinion.
> 
> Missed this one originally. I'll look into this in some detail but will 
> need a few days. Obviously, if it works, it's desirable. Maybe Jaroslav 
> knows why it's not that way now?

I think that it was opti driver author decision, but I also don't see any 
problem to use common code (if verified to be working, of course).

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.



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