[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: soc-compress: add a config item for soc-compress

[Jie, Yang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Brown [mailto:broonie at kernel.org]
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 9:00 PM
> To: Jie, Yang
> Cc: tiwai at suse.de; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org; Girdwood, Liam R;
> vinod.koul at linux.intel.com; ramesh.babu at linux.intel.com; Zhang, Vivian
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: soc-compress: add a config item for soc-
> compress
> 
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:31:25PM +0000, Jie, Yang wrote:
> 
> > > here to make the drivers that do use compressed support select this
> > > symbol
> 
> > As mentioned in commit message, we need add 'select
> SND_SOC_COMPRESS'
> > to driver  Kconfig(e.g. sound/soc/intel/Kconfig) when it is needed.
> >
> > > and since there's no config text there's no way for users to enable
> > > this on a per system basis so this breaks all existing compressed audio
> support.
> >
> > Do you mean I should add this message to 'Help' for this config item?
> > Per my understanding, no existing driver really uses this compressed
> > audio support currently, is that true?
> 
> Some of the existing Intel machine drivers have references to compressed
> audio, it certainly looks like they're trying to use it.  Are you saying that this is
> not actually the case?
 
Let me double confirm if the atom drivers are using it. Seems mfld platform is
using that.

~Keyon