On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:33:21AM -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote: > On 1/7/19 9:55 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:52:40PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > Switch the driver to use modern UUID API, i.e. guid_t type and > > > accompanying functions, such as guid_equal(). > > > > > Any comments on this? > > What is the motivation for this change, is this alignment to new APIs or > that the legacy code will be removed? The idea is to get rid of legacy API at some point. At least for now to minimize its use in the kernel. > I don't know enough about this API and I don't know if we can "prove" the > changes are harmless, so my main concern is testing and backwards > compatibility. This Skylake topology code is far from simple, I don't know > if there's anyone that actually understands it and we already have some > platforms where the mainline kernel doesn't seem to work due to obscure > topology issues, so we might want to leave it alone. "If it ain't broke > don't fix it" applies here. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
