[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] sound: sam9x5_wm8731: machine driver for at91sam9x5 wm8731 boards

[Richard Genoud]

2013/7/9 Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:19:45AM +0200, Richard Genoud wrote:
>> 2013/7/8 Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>:
>
>> > The obvious question here is of course if we can use the same driver for
>> > both of them.
>
>> I haven't got a g20 to test that, but that's the goal.
>
> I think I do somewhere.
>
>> For now, g20 is still non-DT, so I think it's best to have a DT-only
>> driver like this one for the 9x5 family (9g15, 9g25, 9x25, 9g35,
>> 9x25).
>> When the g20 will move to DT completely, we can drop sam9g20_wm8731.c
>> and adjust sam9x5_wm8731.c (mainly master clock and widgets it seems)
>> By the way, maybe g45 could use that also (and SAMA5 ?)
>
> If this is the goal then this driver needs a more generic name.
Hum. I guess we could call it atmel-ssc-sound.c, since the ultimate
goal would be to make it codec agnostic, but there's quite some work
to achieve that (handle the widgets, mclk and rates by DT).
But I really don't know if it's better to keep this name as long as
g20 is not supported, and change it after or have a name that is not
reflecting what the machine driver is doing right now.
Maybe Bo or Nicolas can give their feeling on that (since I'm not
Atmel, I don't know every SoC or what their Big Plan is for sound
machine drivers)

Richard.

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