On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:06:22PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 20:40 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
The size impact of doing something simple is a bit annoying but not usually a pressing issue on devices that would want a CODEC with a noticably large register map.
I think wasting 100+ KB is excessive if I were designing some cheap mp3 player.
Absolutely, but if you're desigining a cheap MP3 player you're very much more likely to be using a much simpler device which doesn't have the very large, sparse register maps that get a substantial benefit from compressing the data like this. As I said, devices that would want a CODEC with a register map that is affected usually aren't under that much size pressure for the kernel.
Up to you how/when it should be resolved/fixed, but I think it should be.
As I said in the text which you cut I agree that this should be improved but don't want to have to go through each and every device cut'n'pasting code since that's not going to do anything for maintainbility.
In addition to my previous comments about your subject lines for patches please also avoid burying new patches in the middle of tangentially related threads.