Hi Linus, > Am 01.12.2020 um 15:20 schrieb Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org>: > > Hi Nikolaus, Sven, > > the fault that the thing broke in the first place is all mine. > Credit where credit is due! > > The reason why I shoot in the dark to convert all SPI > drivers to use GPIO descriptors instead of the global > GPIO numberspace is detailed in drivers/gpio/TODO > so I will not repeat it here. > > I don't know if much can be done about it other than > having better programmers than me at the task. Or > less tired when they write the patch. etc. > > What other operating systems do to get around the same > type of refactoring problem is to aggressively > deprecate and delete code that does not follow the > latest ideas of the driver subsystem developer. This > is not an option on Linux because we don't like to leave > working hardware and users behind so I am painstakingly > fixing it all over the place, with a little help from my > friends. Sometimes it blows up in my face, sometimes > in other people faces too, sorry about that.
Everyone has such a patch written at the wrong time of the day... See for example: f069b5a0b27a Let's work on a fix for the fix now. BR and thanks, Nikolaus
