Re: [PATCH] mfd/wm831x-irq: Convert to new irq_chip functions andfix build failure

From: Mark Brown
Date: Fri Dec 10 2010 - 13:25:03 EST


On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 02:48:43AM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:

> I have no intention of dropping the select from SH, but I'm not going to
> insist that these drivers have the deprecated dependency if we're a) not
> really using them and b) there's a reasonable expectation that they'll
> basically be taken care of in .38 anyways.

That's unfortunate, I'm a bit concerned about support for users picking
up the kernel and using it to build products.

Samuel, would you be OK with cherry picking the relevant commits to the
Wolfson drivers back into .37? I'm especially concerned about WM8994
here - I'd really not like to see a kernel version go out where that
doesn't work.

> I haven't been following the progress in -next, but now that you've
> pointed it out I'll give it a look. It's less effort to just fix up the
> remaining users than it is to audit API dependencies for all of them at
> least.

Probably slightly more in that you can't just blindly add the dependency
when you see the problem but yeah.
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