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,
it's simply the wrong abstraction level to be implementing something
like this so people wouldn't think of auditing the callers to find uses
which might notice that prefixing suddenly worked.