Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add ALSA driver for Atmel AC97 controller

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At Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:21:30 +0100,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:11:38 +0100
> Sedji Gaouaou <sedji.gaouaou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hans-Christian Egtvedt a écrit :
> > >> Actually there are some differences, AT91 does not use a DMA, we
> > >> use a specific IP(PDC) to transer the data...
> > >>
> > > 
> > > PDC is still DMA ;) I guess AT91 uses the "old" PDC and not PDCA?
> > > 
> > I don't know about any PDCA...so yes I guess we are using the old
> > one...
> >
> 
> PDCA is a centralized version of PDC, it might be we only use it on
> AVR32 devices for the time being.
> 
> > >> Maybe we could share the same code we some #define in it?
> > >>
> > > 
> > > Yes, it should be simple to add an additional #define in kconfig.
> > > 
> > > config SND_ATMEL_AC97C_PDC
> > > 	bool
> > > 	depends on ARCH_AT91
> > > 
> > > And then have some ifdefs/else around the DMA stuff, much like the
> > > atmel-mci driver does today.
> > > 
> > I don't know which solution is the dest: ifdef or as Mark's one...
> > 
> 
> The PDC DMA is very simple, so will not add a lot of additional
> bits'n'bytes. So IMHO I think going for all in one source would be the
> best.
> 
> Should I move the AC97C driver to sound/drivers instead then, and then
> leave it open for you to implement the extra parts for AT91 devices?

Well, in general, sound/drivers is for generic drivers that aren't
specific to certain architecture.  I think it's OK to put it in
sound/atmel.


Takashi
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