[alsa-devel] [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH 00/13] Remove mach-kirkwood and mach-dove

[Alexander Holler]

Am 30.06.2014 20:16, schrieb Andrew Lunn:
>> So, what do we do now with support for compressed audio streams via
>> SPDIF on kirkwood hardware?  As far as I can see, it's no longer
>> possible and mainline kernels will never support this.  Please tell
>> me I'm wrong...
> 
> Well, it would of been nice if you had made a comment to either v1 or
> v2 of my patchset saying this is going to cause problems for some
> devices.
> 
> So i will go look at your patch to add frontend and backend and see
> what it means for the current DT binding. The nice thing about
> kirkwood (and Dove) is, there is no uboot with DT support. Hence
> nobody is flashing there DT blob. They are always using appended DT.
> So i'm not against changing the binding. And it has only been in the
> kernel for one cycle, so i doubt there are too many users at the
> moment.

And most people just don't care if some DT-binding changes as they can
change the provided DT themself. At least on every sane device.