[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Add max98088 CODEC driver

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 07:49:30PM -0700, Peter Hsiang wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2010, Mark Brown wrote:

> > No, you should use the features of the current kernel.  For your
> > backport you can do things like supply soc-cache.c as well.

> The soc-cache.c in the latest kernel-next version supports codecs
> with volatile registers in 16 bit mode, but not for the 8 bit mode.
> See snd_soc_8_8_write.

> The source code comments confirmed this:
> "Note at present this code can not be used by CODECs with 
> volatile registers."  

> For this codec (with volatile registers), should we use the read
> and write functions in the codec driver until the 8-bit mode is
> supported by Linux soc-cache.c?

You should modify soc-cache.c to support volatile registers if you need
this; it's not been implemented because nobody needed it yet (someone
may get to it before you get round to resubmitting, but if they haven't
then just extend the core functionality).