[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC don't clobber platform DMA driver ops

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 06:57:47PM +0000, Tull Alan-R80115 wrote:

On public Linux lists you should never top post (so people have context
and know what you're talking about) and you should fix your mail client
to word wrap within paragraphs.

> I originally started down the path you are describing, but quickly ran
> into problems.  I started by adding a soc_pcm_copy and soc_pcm_mmap
> and found that I needed to pull code from ALSA core in to handle the
> case where copy or mmap was NULL for a given platform driver.  

In that case your changelog needs to explain this and I'd still use a
function for those ops that don't have stubs in the core.  Things like
ioctl() could usefully be routed to all the drivers, for example.