The question was "any ETA to start merging Intel patches"...
Ah, sorry I missed that part, but again that is for Pierre to answer. Am
ready to merge if the series satisfies all the questions :)
The ball is in your court Vinod. I replied to all your suggestions and
showed they cannot possibly be implemented without functionality loss or
re-inventing pm_runtime.
Just to rehash the same thing, for ASoC integration a device needs to
have a struct driver with a .name set, and for power management a device
needs a struct driver with the pm_ops set.
So you have two alternatives to choose from, see my email from last Friday.