[alsa-devel] [PATCHv2 2/3] ASoC: Move widgets from DAPM context to snd_soc_card

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:57:56PM +0200, Jarkko Nikula wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:

> > If we keep moving stuff into the card it's questionable what the context
> > is buying us...

> DAPM context represent the parent device (codecs currently and other
> devices in someday) and its state so I don't see we'll be removing it in
> near future even now the widgets and paths are moved to card.

Yeah, but as we keep reducing the amount of per-device state we hold
that could eventually go down to zero - we keep on looking at things
and deciding they're better managed over the whole card.