[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/4 v2] ASoC: add a WM8978 codec driver

[Liam Girdwood]

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 17:27 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> The WM8978 codec from Wolfson Microelectronics is very similar to wm8974, but
> is stereo and also has some differences in pin configuration and internal
> signal routing. This driver is based on wm8974 and takes the differences into
> account.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski at gmx.de>
> ---
> 

Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg at slimlogic.co.uk>

> 
> In short - addressed all comments (thanks a lot again!) - except one... I 
> still would not like to use symbolic names for register bits. Instead I 
> thoroughly commented all multi-bit register manipulations. Reasons:
> 
> 1. thanks for the header, Mark, but unfortunately it contains errors 
>    (duplicate register names, duplicate and wrong bitfield names)
> 2. the header also uses spaces for indentation, which would have to be 
>    manually replaced with TABs
> 3. I am still not convinced, that macro names like WM8978_WL or 
>    WM8978_DLRSWAP or WM8978_MS or... better describe the meaning of the 
>    bitfield than respective comment in the source. Here's an example of a 
>    comment from this patch:
> 
> 	/* bit 3: enable bias, bit 2: enable I/O tie off buffer */
> 	power1 |= 0xc;
> 
>    Where bit-field names do make sense, IMHO, is in drivers, where the 
>    same bitfields have to be written / evaluated multiple times at 
>    different locations. Than indeed giving those bits symbolic names helps 
>    finding them. So, I'd like to request a permission to preserve the 
>    present style of the driver.
> 

I think we will have to agree to disagree on this one, but it can be
fixed at a later stage.

Liam