Re: [linux-next] ASoC: sound/soc/samsung/neo1973_wm8753.c buildfailure

From: Russell King
Date: Thu Sep 15 2011 - 15:17:05 EST


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/
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