Re: [PATCH 4/4] ALSA: ASoC: Davinci: Fixed missing McBSP pinmux for SFFSDR

[Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>]

Hugo Villeneuve <hugo@hugovil.com> writes:

> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:55:06 -0700
> Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> wrote:
>
>> Hugo Villeneuve <hugo@hugovil.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:16:32 +0000
>> > Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:03:41AM -0400, Hugo Villeneuve wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > I based those patches on the latest linux-davinci git tree, which
>> >> > has the function.
>> >> 
>> >> Do not submit patches for mainline which are not based on mainline
>> >> trees.  Code which relies on out of tree changes needs to wait for
>> >> those out of tree changes to be merged before submitting to
>> >> mainline.
>> >
>> > I did not know that these changes were not in mainline yet. I was
>> > told that all davinci ASoC code changes were to be submitted only
>> > to ALSA, and then were imported back into the davinci git tree.
>> > Apparently this is not quite like that anymore.
>> >
>> > Kevin, what is the new rule to submit davinci ASoC patches?
>> >
>> 
>> The DaVinci ASoC code is indeed in mainline, but not all of the
>> DaVinci core (in this case the pin mux) is yet in mainline.  I will be
>> pushing it during the next merge window.
>
> That doesn't really answer my question.
>
> I can see that David Brownell pushed a patch to the davinci tree
> directly modifying sound/soc/davinci/davinci-evm.c which IS in
> mainline. Does this means that as of now all ASoC patches should be sent first to
> the Davinci list, and then you will push those to the mainline kernel?
>

No ASoc patches should be generated against an ASoC tree and submitted
to alsa-devel, and CC davinci list.

This means that the until the DaVinci core is in mainline, DaVinci git will have
slightly different looking ASoC drivers, but those changes will be minimal.

Kevin