On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:04:24AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
IIRC at least one version had a split where the ALSA integration stuff was separated out from the underlying DSP interface code - that was pretty helpful since it helps focus on the ALSA specifics.
Yes but that split is no longer there once the clean up patches sit on top because they weren't put together as separate bits. This is exactly the sort of reason I want to get it in staging.
Sure, though that's what rebase is there for.
We ought to be able to come up with something for the core streaming stuff, though. Like I say, it's just a nice to have though.
I would have thought PCM at least was also going to have some kind of common structure.
ALSA provides that already, pretty much? I guess PCM also falls out of compressed CODEC support as a noop CODEC.
I do have some nervousness about the concept of staging for embedded stuff since I worry that inclusion in staging can send the wrong message to vendors but that's a completely separate issue to this driver.
Noted. But I'll point you at the SEP driver which did get bogged down for ages for reasons I can't really go into publically, and we therefore pulled out of staging.
It's not specifically about this driver, it's more of a general concern about the whole concept and how vendors less used to Linux could easily get the wrong end of the stick.