Re: question about sound/soc/intel/boards/mfld_machine.c

[Vinod Koul]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 07:19:43AM +0530, Jie, Yang wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Julia Lawall [mailto:julia.lawall@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 1:34 AM
> > To: lgirdwood@xxxxxxxxx; broonie@xxxxxxxxxx; perex@xxxxxxxx;
> > tiwai@xxxxxxxx; Jie, Yang <yang.jie@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: question about sound/soc/intel/boards/mfld_machine.c
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I wonder if the file sound/soc/intel/boards/mfld_machine.c is useful?
> > Until:
> > 
> > commit e56c72d5f201044b14191c5b83a25e17f2d68ccf
> > Author: Jie Yang <yang.jie@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Thu Apr 2 15:37:02 2015 +0800
> > 
> >     ASoC: Intel: create boards folder and move sst boards files in
> > 
> > it was in the directory sound/soc/intel and mentioned in
> > sound/soc/intel/Makefile.  The above patch moved it to
> > sound/soc/intel/boards/, but didn't adjust its Makefile entry.  The patch:
> > 
> > commit b97169da06992ef04081e66ed22bbdb23dbf6610
> > Author: Jie Yang <yang.jie@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Thu Apr 2 15:37:04 2015 +0800
> > 
> >     ASoC: Intel: create atom folder and move atom platform files in
> > 
> > removed it from sound/soc/intel/Makefile, but didn't move it anywhere.
> > As far as I can tell, there is currently no make information for the file in the
> > kernel.
> > 
> > Should the file be dropped?
> 
> Thanks for reporting, Julia. I believe this is missed during the folder
> restruction. 
> 
> Hi Vinod, what do you think? If needed, I can add it to intel/Kconfig.

Yeah looks like a miss. This is also a fact that noone is using this, at
least from upstream, so maybe removing it is not such a bad idea..??

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~Vinod