[alsa-devel] [PATCH] Palm interrupt driven touchscreen driver

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:09:34AM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote:

>> As I've said a number of times before AC97 does not support platform
>> data and the ALSA guys blocked adding it.

> We're not blocking adding more data to AC97 structures. We just blocked  
> adding new variable when it's not used.

There was a very strong pushback against the idea of adding a void *
to the structure, which is what I'd be looking for.

> In other words - send a driver code using this variable with the variable 
> addition to the ALSA AC97 structure.

IIRC the original posting had something along with it?  As far as
examples go things like drivers/power/wm97xx_battery.c are already in
tree and pretty much ready to use platform data if it became available.