[alsa-devel] Fix section mismatch in wm8995.c

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 06:48:30PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> IMO, such a data should be uniquely handled -- either init-only or
> not.  Through a quick look, snd_soc_cache_sync() may still refer to
> reg_cache_default.  So, it's still risky to blindly set
> __devinitconst.  (Yeah, I know it's not used right now, though ;)

That's a bug in the flat cache, it should be stashing a copy of it in
the codec instance.  Though it only really makes a difference for
devices where you'd want to use a compressed cache anyway.

> That is, the data that shall be deleted shouldn't be kept in a
> structure that might be referred later from other places.

On the other hand you don't want to make stuff too much of a song and
dance to use.