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

[Dimitris Papastamos]

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 09:50 -0500, jonsmirl at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I've dropped the patch.

Thanks,
Dimitris