[alsa-devel] [RFC 05/10] ALSA: hda - make some of the functions externally visible

[Ughreja, Rakesh A]

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>Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC 05/10] ALSA: hda - make some of the functions
>externally visible
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>On 12/1/17 3:14 AM, Rakesh Ughreja wrote:
>> Mark some functions with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL so that it can be called by
>> other kernel modules. These APIs would be called by ASoC based HDA codec
>> driver which will be added in the later patches.
>
>Looks ok. Just wondering from a code maintenance perspective if those
>functions would need to be part of a library, and if this means that to
>compile the ASoC based HDAudio codec support you still need to enable
>the legacy support - and if this leads to potential conflicts on which
>driver gets probed?

Yes, I think these functions are already part of library.
These are part of file hda_codec.c, which looks like a library to me.

Takashi is that correct understanding ?