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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:22:05 +0100,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 08:15:06PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 April 2012 20:06:19 Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > > Yeah, these stuff can be better put in pci/ice1712/ directory only
> > > for ice1724 driver.  In that way, you can avoid unnecessary exported
> > > symbols, too.
> 
> > Xonar (oxygen) has a private version of these drivers too. It could be 
> > converted to use common code instead.
> 
> Can we make a sound/legacy-codec or something?  Or fix these drivers if
> they're actively developed...

sound/i2c are obvious components for such drivers.
You don't have to react against each rare action.  There aren't so
many hardware any longer, and will be less and less in future.


Takashi