[alsa-devel] Question about your DSP topic branch

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:22:41PM -0800, Patrick Lai wrote:
> On 1/25/2011 3:51 AM, Mark Brown wrote:

> >Yes, that'd be kind of nice but given how tiny these noop drivers are
> >and the fact that they do all need to specify their capabilites it's not
> >clear that there's much advantage from combining them into a single
> >driver - the boiler plate is so small and simple.

> Do we consider the case that codec driver is not required such as
> virtual sink or sink is configured outside of ALSA driver? If we
> create dummy codec driver for each use case, wouldn't
> sound/soc/codecs end up littered with bunch of noop drivers?

Yup, but it's not really a big cost - they're all so trivial.

> Furthermore, couldn't capabilities
> being passed through platform device?

Right, but of course you probably end up defining a common set of
platform data for each device so people don't have to cut'n'paste the
same thing into all the different board files.