[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2 2.6.38] ASoC: soc-cache: Introduce the cache_bypass option

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 02:54:01PM +0000, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> This is primarily needed to avoid writing back to the cache
> whenever we are syncing the cache with the hardware.  This gives a
> performance benefit especially for large register maps.

Hrm, this is a rather large and invasive patch to be applying as part of
a bug fix for a specific driver this late in the release process.  Can
we do something driver specific for the 2.6.38 release?