[alsa-devel] [PATCH 10/13] sound/core: add DRM ELD helper

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Fri May 22 06:30:54 PDT 2015


At Fri, 22 May 2015 14:15:35 +0100,
Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 01:20:09PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 11:26:42AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > > Add a helper for the EDID like data structure, which is typically passed
> > > from a HDMI adapter to its associated audio driver.  This informs the
> > > audio driver of the capabilities of the attached HDMI sink.
> > 
> > As far as I can tell people are fairly happy with the implementation
> > here and unless I'm missing something are definitely happy with the
> > interface.  If that's the case can we get this into -next?  There's a
> > lot of interest in HDMI right now (which is great) and this would be
> > helpful for that, it seems like even if there are issues with the
> > implementation it would be worth merging as is so we can start adding
> > users and then do any improvements to the interface in parallel.
> > 
> > From an interface point of view:
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> 
> I'd be more than happy if Takashi Iwai wants to take them - I'm not
> planning on the audio driver itself being merged just yet as we still
> need to properly hammer out the differences between the AHB audio (for
> iMX6) and I2S audio (for Rockchip) for this device.

Sorry, I've been on vacation in the last two weeks, so slowly
digesting all backlogs now.

> Alternatively, I could move these two patches to the beginning of my
> series, and merge that point into my for-next and/or publish it as a
> separate sub-branch... whatever people want, just let me know.

I'm fine to take the sound part.  It's only patches 10 and 11, right?
Then I can provide a branch that can be merged for the rest drm
stuff.


thanks,

Takashi


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