[alsa-devel] [PATCH 00/18] ALSA: hdac: move hdac helpers to core

[Koul, Vinod]

On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 20:12 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:07:37 +0200,
> Vinod Koul wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Takashi,
> > 
> > Here is the second version which updates the users.
> > 
> > This update was done using coccinelle scripts. I also noticed that the
> > coccinelle is reformaing the change lines, but changes looked good to me so
> > I have kept them, please do let me know if you would like these to be
> > removed.
> 
> Erm, sorry, I didn't want to motivate you in that direction.
> Basically it's better to keep the old API as is for an old driver like
> HDA since it makes stable kernel backporting much easier.  So, what
> we'd need is a lazier solution, just to replace the old API as a
> static inline function wrapping the new API.  The end result is same,
> but it's still compatible with older kernels in the source code
> level.

Ah ...

Even while doing this I was thinking that we have few wrappers and should update
users..

So are you going to hold off update or do it after some point of time

I will send updated one, though I think at some point of time we need to bite this
bullet

-- 
~Vinod