Re: [PATCH 4/4] ALSA: ASoC: Davinci: Fixed missing McBSP pinmux for SFFSDR

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> >
> > Ok, so the patch affecting sound/soc/davinci/davinci-evm.c SHOULD have
> > been submitted to ALSA first.
> 
> Yes, but it should've been a patch against an ASoC tree, not against
> DaVinci git which may contain things not (yet) in the ASoC tree.
> 
> > It is not easy following you guys. You say something and then do the
> > opposite.
> 
> Heh, sorry.
> 
> Do as I do, not as I say.  ;)

I'd say "my bad" ... but in these cases there's seems to be no
better solution than having the DaVinci GIT tree diverge a bit
from mainline ASoC, in synchrony with arch/arm/mach-davinci
which is also diverging from mainline.

There's a general rule that patches should not break builds.
And that rule is why there are several ASoC patches I've not
yet sent to mainline.

The whole ASoC/DaVinci thing has been nothing but build
breakage however, since it depends on EDMA patches which
haven't yet gone to mainline.  (But, I believe, will soon
do so, at which point that breakage will stop.)

- Dave