[alsa-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] ASoC: soc-compress: split soc-compress to a module

[Liam Girdwood]

On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 13:42 +0100, Jie, Yang wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Koul, Vinod
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 7:50 PM
> > To: Jie, Yang; broonie at kernel.org
> > Cc: Girdwood, Liam R; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] ASoC: soc-compress: split soc-
> > compress to a module
> > 
> > On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 17:11 +0800, Jie Yang wrote:
> > > +/* Module information */
> > > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Namarta Kohli <namartax.kohli at intel.com>");
> > > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Ramesh Babu K V <ramesh.babu at linux.intel.com>");
> > > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at linux.intel.com>");
> > 
> > Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com> please
> > 
> 
> OK, I will change this one. 
> 
> > I need to move other instances too :(
> > 
> > 
> > > +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("ALSA SoC Compress");
> > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:soc-compress");
> > > diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c index
> > > ff8bda4..9e32151 100644
> > > --- a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
> > > +++ b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
> > > @@ -3896,6 +3896,7 @@ void snd_soc_dapm_stream_event(struct
> > > snd_soc_pcm_runtime *rtd, int stream,
> > >  	soc_dapm_stream_event(rtd, stream, event);
> > >  	mutex_unlock(&card->dapm_mutex);
> > >  }
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(snd_soc_dapm_stream_event);
> > 
> > These exports should be a new patch
> > 
> > And as we agreed this should have Documentation if not already done :)
> 
> It's not what I really want to do, it introduce 13 exports
> (EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) when we want split soc-compress.c to a separate
> Module, and adding documentation to all of these 13 functions(only for
> soc-compress.c to use them) looks somewhat ungraceful :(
> 

If these are internal functions only (and used only by one user) then
adding some small kernel doc comments above each function should be
enough.

Liam

> Hi Takashi, what's your opinion? Maybe we should keep soc-compress.c
> in snd-soc-core.ko, which means skip/ignore this patch and don’t split it?
> 
> ~Keyon
> > 
> > --
> > ~Vinod


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