Re: [PATCH 0/4 v5] ALSA: dice: improve card registration processing

[Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>]

On Jan 6 2016 22:04, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> How about the rest of my work for ALSA Dice driver to Linux 4.5?
>>
>> [alsa-devel] [RFC][PATCH 00/10 v2] ALSA: dice: stabiliza packet streaming
>> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2015-December/101897.html
>>
>> It takes almost one month since I posted the RFCv2. We already had a
>> discussion about the patchset in RFCv1 and in my opinion there's no
>> thorough disagreement. If possible, I'd like to merge it in the merge
>> window for Linux 4.5. If we go for it, I'll post them in this night.
> 
> Well, RFC is RFC and not for merging.  If it's meant for merging,
> let's poke relevant people whether it's OK.

Indeed for merging process.

However, in my opinion, RFC is one of ways to show directions for future
works and establish _loose_ agreement among active developers. In terms
of it, I think it's time to put the patchset to the review process for
merging.

But it seems to be a bit late for 4.5. I'll postpone them to next
developing cycle for 4.6.


For 4.5, I'll finish all of my work, and I currently plan for 4.6:
 * Limit PCM substreams to current sampling transfer frequency for Dice
driver
 * Replace tasklet with workqueue for scs1x functionality of OXFW driver.
 * Some works in userspace, mainly libhinawa and hinawa-utils
 * Development of firewire-transceiver module for testing streaming
engine of firewire-lib.


Regards

Takashi Sakamoto