linux-kernel - Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: codecs: da9055: Update driver name to fix breakage due to pmic driver with same name

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Message-ID: <20130717103651.GP22506@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:36:51 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Ashish Chavan <ashish.chavan@...tcummins.com>
Cc:	lrg <lrg@...com>, alsa-devel <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
	David Dajun Chen <david.chen@...semi.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kiran.padwal" <kiran.padwal@...tcummins.com>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: codecs: da9055: Update driver name to
 fix breakage due to pmic driver with same name

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 05:06:16PM +0530, Ashish Chavan wrote:

> accommodate this level of change. Is it possible that in first go we
> just fix the breakage due to name collision so that both drivers remain
> usable. And in second iteration, we restructure both of them as you
> suggested?

To be honest I'm really not terribly happy about this - I don't have all
that much confidence that the second step will happen, the fact that
this has been broken for a considerable time isn't inspiring here.
However I guess...

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