[alsa-devel] i.MX audio support

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Thu Nov 19 12:47:55 EST 2009


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 04:32:41PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 04:48:14PM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> 
> > There already is a driver for i.MX in the tree, this one is a nearly complete
> > rewrite. I haven't touched the in Kernel driver with these patches. The in
> > Kernel driver has several problems, it doesn't use ioremap, uses direct pointer
> > derefs instead of proper access functions and the only board supported so far is
> > itself not supported in mainline.
> 
> BTW, unless I notice anything particularly bad in there I'm inclined to
> just merge all the arch/arm patches by themselves since obviously you're
> the maintainer they'd normally go via - I'm assuming the other patches
> depend on them?

I'd prefer merging the arm patches myself as I'm afraid of bothering
upstream upstream with merge conflicts. I think I can rebase this series
in a way that there won't be compile breakages during merge.

Sascha


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