Re: Public ridicule due to sound/soc/soc-core.c abuse of the drivermodel

[Mark Brown]

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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