[alsa-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Add Wolfson Microelectronics WM8776 codec ALSA driver

Ondrej Zary linux at rainbow-software.org
Tue Apr 17 18:13:40 CEST 2012


On Tuesday 17 April 2012 17:02:34 Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:18:37PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> > Needed by Philips PSC724 subdriver. The code does not contain any
> > card-specific bits so it can be used by any other ALSA driver.
>
> Same comments as the previous patch, this should be using ASoC.  In this
> case the device has in fact been supported in mainline since 2.6.32...

Yes, the driver is there - but I dont's see any way to use it. ASoC was not 
designed to be used with sound cards and nobody has ever used any ASoC driver 
in a sound card driver. I don't feel like breaking a working driver (with 16 
subdrivers for many more card types).

-- 
Ondrej Zary


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