[alsa-devel] [PATCH 06/10] ASoC: omap-abe-twl6040: Convert to platform deriver

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:15:58PM +0200, Péter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 December 2011 18:01:00 Mark Brown wrote:

> > Why?  The board appaers to be generally known as SDP4430...

> At the moment we do not have users using the audio on top of the upstream 
> kernel. All distributions are using patched kernel with ABE support.
> In there the audio card is know as SDP4430, and we have the UCM profile for 
> the ABE version of the OMAP4 boards there which will not work on the upstream 
> kernel since we do not have yet the ABE in mainline kernel.
> My plan is to add the UCM files for the upstream version of the driver which 
> will be updated as soon we got new features (like the ABE support). It is 
> easier for distros also to move, when time comes to the new kernel.

This seems like we need a better system for doing this, we can't go
changing the machine name every time there's a kernel space change that
affects a UCM file, that's going to get crazy.  Not quite sure what the
best approach is here - version specific directories perhaps, or some
method of keying off the presence of certain controls.