[alsa-devel] [RFC 05/10] ALSA: hda - make some of the functions externally visible

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 16:43:45 +0100,
Ughreja, Rakesh A wrote:
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> >From: Pierre-Louis Bossart [mailto:pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com]
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> >To: Ughreja, Rakesh A <rakesh.a.ughreja at intel.com>; alsa-devel at alsa-
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> >Cc: Koul, Vinod <vinod.koul at intel.com>; Patches Audio
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> >Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC 05/10] ALSA: hda - make some of the functions
> >externally visible
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> >On 12/1/17 3:14 AM, Rakesh Ughreja wrote:
> >> Mark some functions with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL so that it can be called by
> >> other kernel modules. These APIs would be called by ASoC based HDA codec
> >> driver which will be added in the later patches.
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> >Looks ok. Just wondering from a code maintenance perspective if those
> >functions would need to be part of a library, and if this means that to
> >compile the ASoC based HDAudio codec support you still need to enable
> >the legacy support - and if this leads to potential conflicts on which
> >driver gets probed?
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> Yes, I think these functions are already part of library.
> These are part of file hda_codec.c, which looks like a library to me.
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> Takashi is that correct understanding ?

Yes, it's a library module.


Takashi