[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 0/1] *** SUBJECT HERE ***

[Matti J. Aaltonen]

Hello.

On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 15:05 +0200, ext Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:11:27PM +0200, matti.j.aaltonen at nokia.com wrote:
> 
> > >You've still not provided any information about what use this will be
> > >put to.
> 
> > Yes, sorry I didn't get your point. I guess I tought that it's irrelevant, what
> > the soc_card driver actually does. But it actually does this:
> 
> OK, so the DAI format for the CODEC changes dependant on the mode.  For
> this I'd suggest just changing the function to actually export the DAI
> format directly rather than requring all users to replicate the lookup
> you've currently got in your driver.  This makes it clear what the
> purpose of providing the export is and avoids external drivers needing
> to know too much about the internals of this one.

Ok, that makes perfect sense...

> In terms of what's relevant if someone's asking questions like this
> they're normally trying to figure out what your high level goal is
> because your code looks suspicous and are trying to understand the
> purpose of the code so they can suggest a way of doing things that is
> more in line with the intentions of the surrounding code.

Sorry, I didn't mean to be difficult... If this was my personal project
I'd have sent you every bit my code at once.

Cheers,
Matti A.