From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [PATCH - alsa-lib 1/1] Change card/pid get functions to return -ENOSYS if the kernel is too old Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 12:24:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1459532030-6387-1-git-send-email-agoode@google.com> <20160401211558.GA20661@mail.zuhause> <20160407201041.GB26683@mail.zuhause> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1322F260867 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2016 12:24:57 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20160407201041.GB26683@mail.zuhause> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Martin Koegler Cc: Adam Goode , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, 07 Apr 2016 22:10:41 +0200, Martin Koegler wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 03:23:01PM -0400, Adam Goode wrote: > > Have you heard any objections? > > > > Also, would you plan to do a 1.1.2 release soon after accepting this, to > > get this functionality out quickly? > > Distributions already start to pick 1.1.1 up: > https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/382608 > https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/382611 > > I would object merging that patch, if there is no immediate patched 1.1.2 release available, > as otherwise 1.1.1 with a different API will get used by the mass. I have no strong opinion on this, so far. Either way (a quick 1.1.2 fix release, or introducing a new function in 1.1.2) isn't a big deal. Maybe the former is easier, but the latter is safer. Jaroslav, what's your take? (And no, let's not use the versioned symbols again :) thanks, Takashi