[PATCH] ASoC: sigmadsp: remove I2C support

Lars-Peter Clausen lars at metafoo.de
Thu Jun 5 08:23:07 PDT 2014


On 06/05/2014 05:10 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 05 June 2014 16:55:47 Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> On 06/05/2014 04:47 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> The newly added ADAU1781 codec comes with separate drivers for
>>> I2C and SPI modes, which gives us a new variation of the dependency
>>> problems: If SPI is enabled and the I2C core is a loadable module,
>>> selecting SND_SOC_ADAU1781_SPI as built-in leads to a link error because
>>> the common base code from sigmadsp.c now also gets built-in:
>>>
>>> sound/built-in.o: In function `sigma_action_write_i2c':
>>> :(.text+0x5d8d4): undefined reference to `i2c_master_send'
>>>
>>> Rather than adding yet more complex Kconfig logic, this converts the last
>>> user of process_sigma_firmware() to process_sigma_firmware_regmap(),
>>> which seems trivial after the driver itself now uses regmap as well.
>>> With that done, there is no more linker dependency from
>>> SND_SOC_ADAU1781_SPI to i2c_master_send.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>>> Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars at metafoo.de>
>>
>> No this patch won't work. Regmap support for the adau1701 is rather limited
>> which is why we need native i2c support in the lib.
>
> Ah, I see.
>
>> But yea, I just noticed the same problem an hour ago and was thinking
>> hopefully I'll get to fixing this before it shows up in Arnd's randconfig
>> builds
>
> It's actually my second attempt after I finished writing the first patch
> for it. Is that better?

That will fix the symptoms of the issue for SND_SOC_ALL_CODECS, but the 
problem is still there. I'll send a patch which factors the regmap and I2C 
sigmadsp code out into their own modules.

- Lars



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