[PATCH 00/14] ALSA: firewire-motu: code refactoring to obsolete protocol structure

[Takashi Iwai]

On Tue, 19 May 2020 13:16:27 +0200,
Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> ALSA firewire-motu driver becomes to support more models since its first
> commit 2017. As a result, the original structure for generation-dependent
> protocol is not suitable for differences between models in some cases.
> 
> This patchset is for refactoring the driver to obsolete the protocol
> structure. Some helper functions are added with condition statement for
> protocol version so that the function calls protocol-dependent function.
> Instead of the protocol structure, specification structure is used to
> represent model information and to choose model-dependent operation so
> that it's easy to handle model-dependent quirks.
> 
> Additionally, this patchset changes the way to calculate the number of
> chunks in data block. Current implementation calculates by the fixed
> number of analog input/output ports and flags in the specification
> structure. Although the flags can represent any physical input/output
> of the model, it's difficult to debug for supported model and to add
> support new models, especially for model-dependent quirks. This
> patchset adds each table for the fixed number of chunks of each model.
> The calculation is just done for differed part of chunks.
> 
> Takashi Sakamoto (14):
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: move spec data to v2 protocol file
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: move spec data to v3 protocol file
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: localize protocol data
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: add wrapper functions for protocol-dependent
>     operations
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: drop protocol structure
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: add model-specific table of chunk count
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: add alternative functions to detect packet format
>     for protocol v2
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: add alternative functions to detect packet format
>     for protocol v3
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: use table-based calculation of packet formats for
>     proc
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: use table-based calculation of packet formats for
>     stream management
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: remove obsoleted codes
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: refactoring protocol v2 for clock source getter
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: refactoring protocol v3 for clock source getter
>   ALSA: firewire-motu: refactoring protocol v2 for fetching mode switch

Applied all 14 patches now to for-next branch.


thanks,

Takashi