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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ASoC: dapm: Revert "use component prefix when checking widget names"
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On 28/07/2021 17:09, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 10:55:23AM +0100, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
>
>> I don't mind if someone wants to change the core dapm functions if that
>> is generally useful, providing that it also updates all callers of those
>> functions to still work.
>
>> Changing the behaviour of core code to fix the Realtek driver without
>> updating other callers of those functions is a problem.
>
> The thing here is that nobody would have thought that that any caller
> would have been open coding this stuff like the component things were,

On the contrary, since that was the only way to use these functions with
a prefixed component it's entirely possible that there is code already
adding the prefix. Why would you expect nobody has ever written code
that works?

> it's simply the wrong abstraction level to be implementing something

Ok, but that doesn't mean that it could never have happened.

> like this so people wouldn't think of auditing the callers to find uses

I don't think that it's either safe or desirable to skip checking how
callers use functionality that you want to change. My understanding of
Linux development protocol was that if you make a change that affects
other code, you are responsible for updating that other code to match.
Regardless of whether you agree with how that other code was
implemented. It creates a lot of overhead for everyone if it's ok to
make changes without trying to fix up other code that is affected by
that change.

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