Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add Wolfson Microelectronics WM8776 codec ALSA driver

From: Ondrej Zary
Date: Tue Apr 17 2012 - 12:14:10 EST


On Tuesday 17 April 2012 17:02:34 Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:18:37PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> > Needed by Philips PSC724 subdriver. The code does not contain any
> > card-specific bits so it can be used by any other ALSA driver.
>
> Same comments as the previous patch, this should be using ASoC. In this
> case the device has in fact been supported in mainline since 2.6.32...

Yes, the driver is there - but I dont's see any way to use it. ASoC was not
designed to be used with sound cards and nobody has ever used any ASoC driver
in a sound card driver. I don't feel like breaking a working driver (with 16
subdrivers for many more card types).

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Ondrej Zary
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