[alsa-devel] PATCH - ESI Juli driver

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:57:49 +0100,
Pavel Hofman wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:57:24 +0100,
> > Pavel Hofman wrote:
> >> Hi Takashi,
> > 
> > I feel there are too many additional callbacks in your patch.
> > Since we don't need too subtle tuning, can we simplify this?
> 
> There are only two callbacks which Juli does not redefine. These could 
> be removed. Though I felt it was cleaner to have all the clock-specific 
> stuff potentially redefinable for other cards.
> 
> I did not want to copy/paste any algorithmical code from ice1724.c to 
> juli.c as it complicates future maintenance. Now, the vt1724 code in 
> ice1724.c is pretty much about general algorhitms, specific routines are 
> in stdclock_... I tested the original clock with Prodigy192 which 
> provided testing analog/SPDIF signals. There are no functional changes.

I see the point that you want to make it generic.  But, too many
callbacks, in other words, too many tuning parameters make the code
difficult to follow.  It's a question of balance.


Takashi