[alsa-devel] HD-audio modularization

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:34:35 +0100,
I wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> since my original diet plan for HD-audio driver isn't going well
> as expected, I decided the traditional strategy: divide and conquer.
> 
> The below is the preliminary patch for modularizing snd-hda-intel.
> Now the codec-specific codes are split into several modules, and
> loaded automatically on demand.
> 
> The patch is against the latest sound.git tree:
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git
> 
> It's also included in the recent sound-unstable tree, too
> (topic/hda-modularize branch):
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-unstable-2.6.git
> 
> A known issue is that "alsasound stop" may not work with this because
> of the explicit module refcount without dependency.  But it's a script
> problem, basically.  The similar problem must be there for snd-aoa,
> for example, too.

FYI, the hda-modularization patches are now merged to master branch
on sound git tree.  The snapshot tarball includes this change as well.

Please report if you get any build errors by this.


thanks,

Takashi