[alsa-devel] snd soc spi read/write

[Scott Jiang]

2011/8/5 Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 04:00:52PM +0800, Scott Jiang wrote:
>
>> > Why are you replying off-list?  You should implement 16x8 SPI reads in
>> > the core stuff I'd expect, then disable cache for the CODEC.
>
>> Sorry, I just forgot to CC.
>> I wonder if rbtree compress type can support this kind of sparse register?
>
> Yes, rbtree works fine with this.  You'd still take a hit on the size of
> your register defaults though.
>
>> And should the patch aginst 3.0 or 3.2?
>
> 3.0 can't be patched, though you could try submitting a patch to the
> stable guys.  Probably best to start off with 3.1 and see where we go
> from there.
>

I got a problem here. As Takashi mentioned, our registers have a
read/write bit in the upper 8bit.
There are three methods:
1. pass different registers to snd_soc_read and snd_soc_write. But
snd_kcontrol and snd_soc_dapm_widget can't work because I pass only
one register.
2. deal with this bit in hw_read, but this will be deprecated by
others whose chip doesn't have this bit.
3. I'd like to use SND_SOC_CUS type, but it has been removed since
linux 3.0. I suggest we can reserve this type, considering SPI is a
simple "de facto" standard.