[alsa-devel] [RFC/RFT PATCH] ASoC: topology: Improve backwards compatibility with v4 topology files

[Guenter Roeck]

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 2:04 AM Lin, Mengdong <mengdong.lin at intel.com>
wrote:

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> > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 07:55:06AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 7:18 AM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Your mail client formatting seems to be broken, the word wrapping is
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gmail. Teaches me to not send any patches from my corporate acccount;
it is all but impossible to teach gmail to leave formatting alone.

> Please put the Skylake specific structures in a separate header file, not
in asoc.h.

> The file asoc.h is for generic topology structures which are platform
independent. The topology code in alsa-lib never parses the platform
specific structures.

> The Skylake specific structures are needed by vendor applications like
Intel topology tool (ITT) to define topology for different platforms. The
applications can include both asoc.h, skl-tplg-interface.h and other device
specific headers.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10425395/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10425393/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10425387/

should hopefully be along that line.

Thanks,
Guenter