Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jan 2012 15:49:27 -0800 | | From | Mark Brown <> | | Subject | Re: Public ridicule due to sound/soc/soc-core.c abuse of the driver model |
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On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 11:44:45PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 03:41:39PM -0800, Mark Brown wrote: > > This only helps this specific device model bit of things, if anything is > > still actually holding a reference to the device and tries to use it > > after we tore away the resource underneath it we'll still explode (never > > mind the fact that we're backing this stuff up with some global pointers > > to other devices which may or may not actually be there...). > Err what? Explain showing the code where you think this is the case > with the patch I proposed please.
These aren't new problems being introduced, they're preexisting problems which aren't fixed by this (hence why I say it "only helps with this specific device model side of things") but can come up in pretty much the same circumstances.
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