From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261934AbVG1Wij (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:38:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261763AbVG1Wf6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:35:58 -0400 Received: from mail.metronet.co.uk ([213.162.97.75]:61873 "EHLO mail.metronet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261707AbVG1WeX (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:34:23 -0400 From: Alistair John Strachan To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [ALSA PATCH] 1.0.9b+ Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:34:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: Jaroslav Kysela , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tiwai@suse.de References: <20050728102525.234e6511.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050728102525.234e6511.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507282334.23910.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 28 Jul 2005 18:25, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > Linus, please do an update from: > > > > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa.git > > > > ... > > 65 files changed, 5059 insertions(+), 1122 deletions(-) > > The git-alsa.patch in -mm which I obtain from > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa-current.git is > empty. So we're now wanting to merge 4,000 lines of unreviewed code which > hasn't been tested in -mm at approximately the -rc4 stage. ~2800 lines of which is a new driver. It'd be nice if ALSA's release schedule for "stable" versus "rc" could match the kernel's. For example, 2.6.12 shipped with 1.0.9rc2. Maybe "rc" ALSA should only be accepted in rc1, by rc4 you hope they can wrap things up and give you a stable version number? Okay, generally in-tree version numbers don't count for much, but I think ALSA is a big exception because it's maintained pretty much out of tree. Not so much of an issue this time around, but I don't think new drivers or rewrites (even if they are reasonably separate) should be going in a late -rc kernel. Just my two pence. -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.