[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: soc-core: Remove display_register() callback

[jonsmirl at gmail.com]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Mark Brown
<broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:20:54AM +0000, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
>> Remove the display_register() callback as there are no users of it
>> in the upstream kernel and makes it difficult to unify the format
>> of the codec_reg file.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dp at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
>
> This was rather strongly requested for some devices with extremely large
> registers (128 bits at least IIRC) which may eventually make it to
> mainline.  It seems better to just have some sort of fallback for those
> devices, if it causes output problems people can always fix those.
>

TI Codec devices have two problems:
1) large registers - up to 128 bits
2) sparse register maps - big gaps between valid register addresses.



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Jon Smirl
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