From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933365Ab1IOLxq (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:53:46 -0400 Received: from mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de ([134.100.9.70]:58628 "EHLO mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933075Ab1IOLxp (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:53:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4E71E720.7040008@metafoo.de> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:53:04 +0200 From: Lars-Peter Clausen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110818 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King CC: Mark Brown , Axel Lin , Harald Welte , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Liam Girdwood Subject: Re: [linux-next] ASoC: sound/soc/samsung/neo1973_wm8753.c build failure 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> In-Reply-To: <20110915110056.GA32615@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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