Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 00/11] Add AXD Audio Processing IP driver

From: Qais Yousef
Date: Wed Oct 29 2014 - 06:48:48 EST


On 10/29/2014 05:24 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:50:19AM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
cepted into staging until this is resolved?
If you are willing to abide by the staging rules:
- incremental patches only doing one thing at a time
- never break the build
- constantly moving forward to getting merged (i.e. no new
features being added)

I think it will be easier for you to do the work outside of the tree as
you are going to be changing the API, which is not going to be easy to
do in an incremental patch series.

And yes, this isn't going to be a trivial amount of work, sorry.
I am not sure if it can fit into staging model. The whole design of driver
would need rework and all the infrastructure added here for exposing stuff
to usermode will be thrown away, so this driver would simply need an
major overhaul.

If this was ALSA driver and we would need to plumb it for acceptance then
would have made sense in include, but thats not the fact today

Thanks

Thanks for all the comments Vinod. Looks like I made a bad judgement, clearly I wouldn't want to rewrite the code twice :) I'll take a closer look at using the framework and maybe start with the features that we know will work and build up the rest incrementally and address problems from there.

Thanks,
Qais
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