On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:51:53 +0100, Rakesh Ughreja wrote: > > Enhanced HD Audio capabilities introduced in HD Audio controllers are > added in backward compatible way i.e. it does not change the behavior > of the controller with respect to HDA Bus and HDA devices. > > Since there is no change in the hardware with respect to the HDA bus and > HDA device it is more appropriate to represent the same in software as > well. > > In order to align software representation with hardware it makes more > sense to have common data structures across device, bus and driver for both > enhanced HDA controllers and legacy HDA controllers. > > This patch series removes the hdac_ext_device structure, hdac_ext_bus and > hdac_ext_driver data structures so that legacy and enhanced HDaudio > capabilities can be handled in a backward-compatible way without > separate definitions. > > Once this clean-up is complete, additional patches will allow for > HDaudio codec support in an ASoC framework without the need to develop > new codec drivers, thereby enabling the use of the Intel DSP on more > platforms (currently limited to hdmi). > > Changes v2: > - No functionality changes in this series except rebase. > > Rakesh Ughreja (3): > ALSA: hdac: Remove usage of struct hdac_ext_device and use hdac_device > instead > ALSA: hdac: Remove usage of struct hdac_ext_bus and use hdac_bus > instead > ALSA: hdac: Remove usage of struct hdac_ext_driver, use hdac_driver > instead These are merely cleanups, so I'm fine to merge these, but I can't merge for now since it's based on Mark's branch. Mark, please send a pull request for Intel SKL stuff before working on this issue. Then we can set the solid base line for both legacy and asoc HD-audio. thanks, Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
