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

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Message-ID: <20110915133122.GG7988@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:31:22 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Russell King <rmk+alsa@....linux.org.uk>
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 12:00:56PM +0100, 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.

Yes, yes - I'm aware of this.

> 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.)

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.
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