[alsa-devel] Reforming s3c2443 ac97 driver

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Fri Jan 8 10:48:09 CET 2010


On 8 Jan 2010, at 05:28, JASWINDERSINGH BRAR <jassi.brar at samsung.com>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>     Right now the S3C2443's AC97_ver2.0 controller driver isn't  
> flexible enough
> to handle newer SoCs.
>   In order to prepare ground for supporting 64xx and S5Pxxxx the  
> extant driver
> needs to be reformed, and that is what i am planning to do next.
>
> I plan to do the following:-
> 1) User platform_driver structure to detect and manage AC97 controller
> platform devices.
> 2) Remove hardcoded parameters(DMA, IO address, IRQ etc) and pass via
> platform resources.
> 3) Initialize platform specific stuff by callback pointers to  
> platform code(cfg_gpio)
>
> Objections, suggestions welcome.

This sounds like a good approach - please go ahead.


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