Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:11:10 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Public ridicule due to sound/soc/soc-core.c abuse of the driver model |
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On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:52:13PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 09:51:25AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > Anything which helps reduce the abuses of the driver model is a plus - > > it helps remove the possibility of kernel oopses. > > Trying to make any sort of modification to code this fragile is risky, > especially during what's supposed to be a stabalization phase (which is > what Greg is requesting). It just seems completely irresponsible for > something that isn't actually a practical problem.
I find it hard to believe that ignoring the driver model is not a "practical" problem :)
For details as to why this is a problem, please see the kobject.txt file.
Please fix this up, as you have seen, people end up cutting-and-pasting bad code.
greg k-h
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