linux-kernel - Re: [linux-next] ASoC: sound/soc/samsung/neo1973

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Date:	Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:16:30 +0100
From:	Russell King <rmk+alsa@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	Axel Lin <axel.lin@...il.com>, Harald Welte <laforge@...nezx.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Subject: Re: [linux-next] ASoC: sound/soc/samsung/neo1973_wm8753.c build
	failure

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:
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