From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King Subject: Re: [linux-next] ASoC: sound/soc/samsung/neo1973_wm8753.c build failure Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:16:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20110915191630.GA21615@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1315991893.17271.2.camel@phoenix> <20110914191917.GA30518@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20110914232808.GC2953@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20110914233838.GB22946@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20110915094640.GA7988@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20110915110056.GA32615@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20110915133122.GG7988@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110915133122.GG7988@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Brown Cc: Axel Lin , Harald Welte , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Liam Girdwood , Lars-Peter Clausen List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 02:31:22PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:00:56PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > If it's not dead then it needs sorting out. Either way there's two > > valid states: 1. fully merged, or 2. none of it is merged. > > There's no real half-way house state - certainly not one which should > > persist for three years. (It would be reasonable for maybe a couple > > of kernel releases but more than that is becoming very much a joke.) > > I'm not really aware of what's going on with the arch/arm code but from > an ASoC point of view it's one of the platforms people seem to usefully > care about; there's more traffic than for most machines. Obviously the > problems with s3c24xx aren't going to have been helpful either. It sounds like you're in the perfect place to send them a warning that something needs to happen on this, one way or the other. Whether anyone volunteers should be used as a factor in deciding how to deal with the small bits of GTA01 support in mainline. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: