On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 21:39, Zhang, Sonic wrote: >-----Original Message----- >>On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 05:00, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Revision 9632 Author scott Date 2011-02-28 05:00:44 -0500 >>> (Mon, 28 Feb 2011) >>> >>> Log Message >>> >>> asoc: remove obsolete ac97 driver >>> >>> Modified Paths >>> >>> trunk/sound/soc/blackfin/Kconfig >>> trunk/sound/soc/blackfin/Makefile >>> trunk/sound/soc/blackfin/bf5xx-sport.h >>> trunk/sound/soc/codecs/Kconfig >>> trunk/sound/soc/codecs/Makefile >>> >>> Removed Paths >>> >>> trunk/sound/soc/blackfin/bf5xx-ac97-pcm.c >>> trunk/sound/soc/blackfin/bf5xx-ac97-pcm.h >>> trunk/sound/soc/blackfin/bf5xx-ac97.c >>> trunk/sound/soc/blackfin/bf5xx-ac97.h >>> trunk/sound/soc/blackfin/bf5xx-ad1980.c >>> trunk/sound/soc/codecs/ad1980.c >>> trunk/sound/soc/codecs/ad1980.h >> >>two things ... this is the audio part on the bf548-ezkit, so >>without this driver, we cant demo audio on that board. and >>that board is by far the best suited for easily testing audio >>with many other inputs at the same time. > > You can continue to demo on the bf548-ezkit under 2010R1 release.
that doesnt really work for me. if we're taking the position of "when a part goes EOL, ADI no longer supports it", then it seems to me that customers are going to pick other people who support the software stack longer than the life of the part. >>second, ac97 should be just a transport layer, so is there any >>reason people cant hook up other codecs via it ? > > We have already made the decision to stop supporting obsolette ad1980 and > AC97 in kernel since 2009R1. After the ASOC is revised in 2.6.37, I don't > think it worth the efforts to port the drivers and keep them in future > release. If people want to hook other AC97 sound card (not from ADI), they > are on their own. i'm pretty sure mainline updated the codec driver already for us. it was just the transport layer that needed updating because of our incomplete SPORT reorganization. the transport layer (SPORT) should be handled by us because it is specific to Blackfin parts. -mike _______________________________________________ Linux-kernel-commits mailing list [email protected] https://blackfin.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-kernel-commits
