[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/5] ASoC: Allow platform drivers to have no ops structure

[Jassi Brar]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Mark Brown
<broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:17:46AM +0530, Jassi Brar wrote:
>
> Please delete unneeded context, makes it much easier to find your
> text...
There wasn't anything to quote from changelog and my comments
encompass your every change, so I commented  at the end.

>> I have nothing against this approach, but just a thought...
>> Is there any option like having 'dummy' versions of cpu,
>> codec and dma dais, maybe ops too, and have machine
>> drivers explicitly use them. That will preserve what has always been
>> expected off of ASoC drivers and keep the
>> core 'simple' (not to mean the checks you add above are
>> serious overhead).
>
> I considered that, my thought was mostly that it's better for the core
> to do a bit of work than for each user to have to do typing.  I'd
> probably have gone the other way if we weren't already having to check
> to see if the op itself was there - this is why there's a dummy driver
> created and substituted in where there's no platform at all.  Had I done
> the second patch first I'd probably never have written this one but it
> seemed like something someone might come up with another sane use case
> for some time.
>
> In the DAIs we're actually substituting a dummy ops in but we shouldn't
> really be doing that as it ought to be possible for the drivers to be
> const.

OK.

  Acked-by: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar at gmail.com>