Hi Mark
These are 3/6 step of prepare patches for "replace component".
Some codec drivers are using codec->hw_write, codec->control_data, but these are very redundant code, and component doesn't want to have such code. These patches cleanup it.
You can check whole replace component patch-set on below. This is one of them
Subject: Prepare to covert Codec/Platform into Component Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:18:11 +0900
Kuninori Morimoto (6): ASoC: don't use codec hw_write on uda1380 ASoC: don't use codec hw_write on tlv320dac33 ASoC: don't use codec hw_write on cx20442/omap-ams-delta ASoC: don't use codec hw_write on twl6040 ASoC: don't use codec hw_write on max98926 ASoC: don't use codec hw_write on max98927
sound/soc/codecs/cx20442.c | 23 ++++++++++------------- sound/soc/codecs/max98926.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/max98927.c | 1 - sound/soc/codecs/tlv320dac33.c | 12 +++++------- sound/soc/codecs/twl6040.c | 16 ++++++++-------- sound/soc/codecs/uda1380.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- sound/soc/omap/ams-delta.c | 4 ++-- 7 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)