On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 18:07, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 05:09:42PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> i dont see how abstracting away the bus such that codec drivers are >> allowed to build without proper bus support is useful. the >> AD1836/AD1938 only work with the SPI bus, so if support for that is >> disabled, having the driver compiled and installed is pointless. > > Both approaches allow drivers to be built which can't actually be used > since neither guarantees that there will be a driver for the SPI > controller. Either way all we're doing is making sure that the kernel > will build, the user can still build things so that the audio driver > won't do anything useful. hmm, that's certainly true. if we look at it as "screwed either way", then going to a generic bus indirection sounds like it'd only add runtime overhead for no real gain ? in the face of this proposed effort being a ways off, doesnt it make sense to still merge the original proposed patch ? -mike _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
