[alsa-devel] "ak" vs "asahi-kasei"

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Jun 11 21:04:44 CEST 2014


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:51:41PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/11/2014 11:02 AM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > I think the bikeshed would be much better painted pink with yellow spots :)

> Sorry to jump in on this late, but what on earth is wrong with "ak". It
> went through the appropriate review process, and is already in use.
> Admittedly only in a single ARM DT file, but it's still in use. We'll
> have to allow the ak prefix forever given that DT is an ABI, so rather
> than introducing more random variations, we should just stick with what
> we have.

Well, the issue is that in reality the bulk of the drivers are using
asahi-kasei, we're going to have to churn at least something anyway.  We
seem to have one in tree user of ak in a DTS file and two DTSs using
asahi-kasei with seven drivers.
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