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