[alsa-devel] [PATCH v3 2/4] ARM: tegra: Add Harmony sound platform data type

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:41:08PM -0800, Colin Cross wrote:

> Could the same platform_data patch go into both ASoC and Tegra?  It
> would fall out in the merge, no matter who gets pulled first.  If we
> go that route, whichever place you put the header, one of the trees
> will have an include file that is in the other tree's directory.

The usual thing here would be a branch that gets merged into both trees
(to avoid the commit getting duplicated) or to only apply in one tree
and let things sort themselves out in -next and the merge window.

> I still think the header makes more sense in include/sound than
> mach-tegra, but if the ASoC maintainers prefer it in mach-tegra,
> consider the patch Acked-by: Colin Cross <ccross at android.com> for
> inclusion in the ASoC tree.

The general style for architecture specific headers is that they get
included in architecture specific directories to avoid general namespace
pollution.