From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars-Peter Clausen Subject: Re: [linux-next] ASoC: sound/soc/samsung/neo1973_wm8753.c build failure Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:53:04 +0200 Message-ID: <4E71E720.7040008@metafoo.de> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de [134.100.9.70]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5492451B for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:53:44 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20110915110056.GA32615@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Russell King Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Mark Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Axel Lin , Liam Girdwood , Harald Welte List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 09/15/2011 01:00 PM, Russell King wrote: > [...] > We now have a sane policy: entries which aren't fully up to date are > automatically dropped. Entries for which there is no platform support > file merged within 12 months of the entries last edit are dropped also > automatically dropped. Partly unrelated, but what about these platforms which can be fully described with DT and don't need a platform file? > [...] > Lastly, GTA01 board support was added to the ALSA stuff in 2008 without > the main platform support in arch/arm - so it can't be usefully used. > It's been three years since that was done and still there is no sign of > the main platform support appearing. It's been five years since the > entry was created in the machine database. > > Face it, GTA01 is dead as far as mainline is concerned. > > 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.) The code for GTA01 is out there and could be merged into mainline, but I think it would be dead code since there doesn't seem to be really any interest in the device anymore. So just get rid of the gta01 portions of the neo1973_wm8753 driver. If GTA01 support ever gets merged we can still revert the removal. - Lars