Re: Public ridicule due to sound/soc/soc-core.c abuse of the driver model

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 12:31:30PM -0800, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 12:11:10PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:52:13PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > Trying to make any sort of modification to code this fragile is risky,
> > > especially during what's supposed to be a stabalization phase (which is
> > > what Greg is requesting).  It just seems completely irresponsible for
> > > something that isn't actually a practical problem.
> 
> > I find it hard to believe that ignoring the driver model is not a
> > "practical" problem :)
> 
> > For details as to why this is a problem, please see the kobject.txt
> > file.
> 
> Sure, I'm fully aware of the issue.  The reason this is so painful to
> work with is that AC'97 is just generally doing a really bad job of
> using the driver model.
> 
> > Please fix this up, as you have seen, people end up cutting-and-pasting
> > bad code.
> 
> In my copious free time, but like I say trying to do this for 3.3 (you
> only posted *after* the merge window opened) is just nuts and I'd rather
> hope someone who cares about AC'97 systems will come forward and work on
> it (having one would be a real bonus).  If people actually had problems
> we were fixing that'd be one thing but if they do they're being
> extremely quiet about it.

Ok, fair enough, if this is fixed by 3.4, I'll be happy.

thanks,

greg k-h