[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/1] ASoC: Fix compilation error with davinci-sffsdr module

Hugo Villeneuve hugo at hugovil.com
Tue Jan 6 22:41:20 CET 2009


On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:31:17 +0000
Mark Brown <broonie at sirena.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:23:45PM -0500, Hugo Villeneuve wrote:
> > The SFFSDR audio codec sampling frequency clock is generated by
> > a FPGA, and set by the FPGA driver. The FPGA driver is not yet
> > in the mainline kernel, so that is why an extern declaration is
> > used in the meantime.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Hugo Villeneuve <hugo at hugovil.com>
> 
> If the driver is for is not yet in mainline I'd be more inclined to
> fix this by providing the relevant Kconfig dependency to exclude it
> from the build rather than changing the C file - the dependency will
> be needed anyway when the FPGA driver is in mainline.

Hi Mark,
The problem is that some people may want to do modifications to this soc driver, and they won´t be able to test that their changes are valid (ex: do not break compilation).

> Do the DaVinci drivers build at all in mainline, anyway?  Last time I
> checked they required out of tree DMA patches.

I just sucessfully compiled the davinci-sffsdr soc driver (although audio seems broken for me at the moment when I actually test it).

Hugo V.

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