Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/4] OMAP: mcbsp - add smart idle configuration API

On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 16:01 -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:

Liam Girdwood lrg@slimlogic.co.uk writes:

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Add a small API to configure McBSP smart idle modes to conserve power.

Would be useful here to explain why client drivers need to change idle modes.

I think Peter has covered this in one of his replies.

Also, this patch is telling me that it's time the McBSP is converted over to the omap_hwmod/omap_device infrastructure where this type of functionality would already be provided.

Not necesssarily a reason to prevent this patch for now, but this will all need to be changed when converted to hwmod.

Ok, I think I'll actually just convert it to hwmod rather than adding a soon to be deprecated API.

Thanks

Liam