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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
	Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Workable vintage driver support mechanism? (Re: [PATCH v3] ES938 support for ES18xx driver)
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 21:41:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5432F060.5060307@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141006184150.GA2465@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de>

Andreas Mohr wrote:
> I think I have an idea which might be useful to accept:
> for every piece of sufficiently "vintage" submission,
> people would be tasked with offering (or somehow ensuring)
> a sufficiently closely time-related cleanup in other places.

The problem that such a new driver imposes is not a one-time reduction
in overall kernel quality, but the ongoing maintenance effort.


Regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-06 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-29 21:44 [PATCH v3] ES938 support for ES18xx driver Ondrej Zary
2014-09-29 21:44 ` Ondrej Zary
2014-09-29 21:58 ` Andreas Mohr
2014-10-06  9:39 ` [alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai
2014-10-06 13:55   ` Ondrej Zary
2014-10-06 14:13     ` Takashi Iwai
2014-10-06 18:41       ` Workable vintage driver support mechanism? (Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v3] ES938 support for ES18xx driver) Andreas Mohr
2014-10-06 19:41         ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2014-10-07 10:44           ` [alsa-devel] Workable vintage driver support mechanism? (Re: " One Thousand Gnomes
2014-10-07  5:32         ` Takashi Iwai
2014-10-07  5:32           ` Workable vintage driver support mechanism? (Re: [alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai
2014-10-12 21:19           ` Workable vintage driver support mechanism? (Re: " Ondrej Zary
2014-10-12 21:19             ` Workable vintage driver support mechanism? (Re: [alsa-devel] " Ondrej Zary
2014-10-13  5:54             ` Takashi Iwai

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