Argh. Just noticed the driver author is _not_ listed in MAINTAINTERS. I guess the driver author doesn't care about receiving patches for his driver then... If Arnaud does care then that needs to be fixed. I will not be spamming everyone again with this patch set just because someone can't be bothered to ensure that they have appropriate MAINTAINERS entries. I'm sure they can be dug out of the alsa-devel archives instead.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:17:26PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
The first five patches of this patch series fixes a number of problems with the Kirkwood audio driver, as seen on Dove platforms. The biggest issue is that they can cause the kernel to lock up solidly, requiring a reset to recover.
Other issues included in the first six patches are bugs found by the cubox folk.
The other five patches convert the I2S driver to use the devm_* APIs, improve the handling of the record and playback control registers so we're not reading and writing them as often, lift restrictions in the DMA driver which aren't necessary to impose, and add support for external clocks so that sample rates other than 44.1, 48 and 96kHz can be supported. Some of these changes prepare the driver to support the SPDIF output including passthrough mode; however, that support is not included in this patch set.
These patches probably need checking out on Kirkwood before they go into mainline, but given the severity of the kernel lockup, I suggest that once tested the first five patches go into -rc.
sound/soc/kirkwood/kirkwood-dma.c | 19 ++- sound/soc/kirkwood/kirkwood-i2s.c | 291 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- sound/soc/kirkwood/kirkwood.h | 11 +- 3 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 124 deletions(-)
ASoC: kirkwood-dma: remove channel restrictions ASoC: kirkwood-i2s: add support for external clock rates ASoC: kirkwood-dma: remove restriction on sample rates ASoC: kirkwood-i2s: better handling of play/record control registers ASoC: kirkwood-i2s: use devm_* APIs ASoC: kirkwood-i2s: more pause-mode fixes ASoC: kirkwood-i2s: fix DMA underruns ASoC: kirkwood-i2s: fix DCO lock detection ASoC: kirkwood-dma: don't ignore other irq causes on error ASoC: kirkwood-dma: fix use of virt_to_phys()