From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Adrian McMenamin" Subject: Re: submitting a patch against the ALSA repos Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:21:14 +0100 Message-ID: <92a12cdb0705180321u37cefc86va5cbc4b933177d35@mail.gmail.com> References: <92a12cdb0705180216k4bb70a64x7da9c03313220623@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.224]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13491244E1 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 12:21:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so1174017nzf for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 03:21:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 18/05/07, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 18 May 2007 10:16:26 +0100, > Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > > > I have submitted my patch against the 2.6.21 kernel tree but I dare > > say I need to actually submit it against the alsa repos. > > If you submit a patch to a new driver, it should be against the very > latest ALSA tree, which is basically based on the latest mm tree > (2.6.22-rc*-mm*) and planned to be merged into the next kernel > (2.6.23). > > Is there any difference between 2.6.21 and 22 regarding SH arch > specific things? At least, there is no difference regarding the sound > infrastructure. None that I am aware of, I'll post a patch against that tree later today just to be sure though. > > > I have a few questions: > > > > 1. Which set of sources do I patch - I assume alsa-driver - is that right? > ... > > If the driver is still in the early development stage and not intended > to be merged to the upstream kernel, we can keep it in alsa-driver > tree. Yes, I think it can go upstream. > ... > > > 3. This is a new architecture - there are no other SuperH drivers in > > alsa (afaik) - how do I add a new architecture? My memory is that when > > I tried this a year ago it was a bit of a nightmare. > > Yeah, it's not too easy. First, we'd need to add the architecture > check and the corresponding options in configure script. > I'll take care of it. > More than happy for you to do that.