On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:05:38PM +0530, Koul, Vinod wrote:

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... so the whole messages can be reduced to a sentense: "Rewrite the driver based on ASoC!"

Then it's a question to Intel guys. If they would like to support for it, we can happily wait for it before merging. If they don't want but keep as is, then questions are:

• whether to keep it in upstream or not
• where to keep it, in staging or in sound tree

and, the latter question is nothing but a bikeshedding; in anyway it's a second choice, after all. We should spend time for more useful things :)

Yes Intel is planning to rewrite the sound card driver for ASoC. I will take us little time for that :-)

Meanwhile IMO it would be great to have this driver in staging or in sound whichever you guys agree to

As the userspace api is going to change, and Intel is committed to redo the api to use ASoC, I suggest it goes into the staging tree. That will force Intel to live up to that promise, otherwise the code will be dropped from the tree.

thanks,

greg k-h