[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] ASoC: Intel: ACPI support and machines

[Liam Girdwood]

On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 11:05 +0200, Jarkko Nikula wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 11/04/2014 10:25 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:09:40AM +0200, Jarkko Nikula wrote:
> >>
> >> I think there is need to have some consolidation with current
> >> byt-rt5640 and byt-max98090. Since existing drivers and this set are
> >> using the same ACPI IDs "80860F28" for the ADSP and "10EC5640" codec
> >> ACPIID for the machine driver probing these drivers won't work
> >> together.
> > Liam's suggestion was to remove the current driver when all the bits are
> > upstream

I think we need to keep the original driver around a bit longer until
the new driver is stable on rambi and other platforms the old driver
supports atm. A that point we can depricate the original driver with a
view to eventual removal.

> Yeah, I'm not against it but we must avoid regressions and perhaps try 
> to do seamless handover if possible. It's always more nice to find 
> regression in a small than big patch when bisecting :-)
> 

Liam

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