Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:34:25 +0200
Message-ID: <s5htynt2eum.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Christian Dietrich <qy03fugy@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>,
        Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
        alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        vamos-dev@i4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Subject: Re: Missing config option for SFFSDR_FPGA
In-Reply-To: <20100721122853.GA15462@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main>
References: <86tynthzja.fsf@peer.zerties.org>
	<20100721122853.GA15462@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main>
User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.6 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka)
 FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/23.1
 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO)
MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka")
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1460
Lines: 37

At Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:28:53 +0100,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:58:33PM +0200, Christian Dietrich wrote:
> 
> >         As part of the VAMOS[0] research project at the University of
> > Erlangen we are looking at multiple integrity errors in linux'
> > configuration system.
> 
> As I keep saying every time someone reports this problem you really need
> to speak to the people responsible for the platform.  This is an issue
> specific to the relevant board, please contact the maintainers of the
> specific system.
> 
> If you're going to do this sort of work you need to watch out for
> embedded devices - you will need to make sure to contact the people
> responsible for the device as well as the subsystem maintainers who
> will often have no specific knowledge of the individual systems.

The problem is that the drivers for embedded platforms are often out
of sync.  davinci is one of such platforms.  So, as Mark suggested,
it'd be better to talk with guys responsible for such a system
beforehand.

Of course, as upstream, we can clean up things here.  But, I'd like to
see this clean-up rather from the platform side.  In that way, it can
be synchronized better.


thanks,

Takashi
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/