On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:24:18AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Because it's not using the relevant framework at all, it's gone and > > reinvented the wheel without a pressing reason to do so and this will > > be very likely to create problems if the part is at all successful. > Its more a case of predating the wheel as far as I can tell. In terms ASoC has been in mainline since 2.6.21 which I imagine predates the Moorestown code. > of frameworks I don't think it matters as of itself - but once that > means you have to write two different versions of the same codec chip > driver for example yes it matters. Yes, exactly - this is the big problem. It's often much worse than just two different versions, with these things it's easy to end up having to have versions per board. > Putting it in staging allows that work to be done in public in a > meaningful way where the code and changes get review. I agree with the approach you're outlining here. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
