[alsa-devel] [PATCH v1] ASoC: Intel: Skylake: Switch to modern UUID API

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:33:21AM -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> On 1/7/19 9:55 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:52:40PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > Switch the driver to use modern UUID API, i.e. guid_t type and
> > > accompanying functions, such as guid_equal().
> > > 
> > Any comments on this?
> 
> What is the motivation for this change, is this alignment to new APIs or
> that the legacy code will be removed?

The idea is to get rid of legacy API at some point. At least for now to
minimize its use in the kernel.

> I don't know enough about this API and I don't know if we can "prove" the
> changes are harmless, so my main concern is testing and backwards
> compatibility. This Skylake topology code is far from simple, I don't know
> if there's anyone that actually understands it and we already have some
> platforms where the mainline kernel doesn't seem to work due to obscure
> topology issues, so we might want to leave it alone. "If it ain't broke
> don't fix it" applies here.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko