From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dario Faggioli Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] sndif: add ABI for Para-virtual sound Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:49:31 +0000 Message-ID: <1424778569.4742.96.camel@citrix.com> References: <1423222117-18949-1-git-send-email-oleksandr.dmytryshyn@globallogic.com> <1424713267.27930.250.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3559546289313890120==" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1424713267.27930.250.camel@citrix.com> Content-Language: en-US List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: "iurii.konovalenko@globallogic.com" , "Keir (Xen.org)" , Andrew Cooper , "oleksandr.dmytryshyn@globallogic.com" , "Tim (Xen.org)" , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , "embedded-pv-devel@lists.xenproject.org" , Paul Durrant , Stefano Panella , "jbeulich@suse.com" , Ian Jackson , "lars.kurth@xen.org" , Roger Pau Monne List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============3559546289313890120== Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-FLzpOlyfYSXuBOoN7ExS" --=-FLzpOlyfYSXuBOoN7ExS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 17:41 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 13:28 +0200, Oleksandr Dmytryshyn wrote: > > This is ABI for the two halves of a Para-virtual > > sound driver to communicate with each to other. > >=20 > > Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Dmytryshyn > > Signed-off-by: Iurii Konovalenko >=20 > This seems to have gotten rather stalled, I think because of two > factors, one is that noone has clear maintainer responsibility for > blessing the creation of new PV protocols and partly because people are > naturally a bit cautious about creating new ABIs, which must be > maintained long term, for types of device with which they are not really > familiar. >=20 I agree... we really don't have audio experts on the list, I think! :-/ > I've added Lars because perhaps there is some process we can put in > place which helps alleviate these issues. (I don't know what, but > perhaps a "staging area" for new protocols which isn't ABI stable along > with some sort of graduation process, or perhaps some sort of governance > thing which would make it clear who has to say yes to something like > this, so we can beat them with sticks until they say something). >=20 +1 to the idea. > I've also CC-d a bunch of people who commented on previous rounds in > case any of them feel neither of the factors I mentioned apply to them > and want to say Acked/Reviewed-by ;-) >=20 Thanks for this. Personally, I took a look at the patches and the document, and asked Stefano to help us providing his thoughts on the thing. Since then, I never had much time to look into this again, but even if I did, all you said above about being wary on new protocols/ABI and not knowing much about audio applies. :-( Regards, Dario --=-FLzpOlyfYSXuBOoN7ExS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEABECAAYFAlTsZUkACgkQk4XaBE3IOsQd8wCfYXdgre+PKD2mZP6NYd1nkqcP 4fAAoIenITlrVq9TlIV1zZMhOTtgVaf9 =vcyP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-FLzpOlyfYSXuBOoN7ExS-- --===============3559546289313890120== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel --===============3559546289313890120==--