Re: Patch - ESI Maya44 driver

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:27:02 +0200,
midragius wrote:
> 
> > > At Fri, 9 May 2008 09:22:13 +0200,
> > > Piotr Zaryk wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Is there anybody who could integrate the MAYA44 driver with ALSA? Rainer
> > > > does not respond and I don't know what's going on. Maya44 driver should be
> > > > integrated as soon as possible because of the improvements in the ice-1724
> > > > code. Anybody interested?
> > > 
> > > Such a big patch cannot be merged to the upstream without a proper
> > > sign-off.  I mailed Rainer again but no response yet, unfortunately.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Takashi
> > 
> 
> Rainer in his ESI Maya44 driver, put something like this:
> 
> +/*
> 
> + *   Low-level routines for Wolfson WM8776 codec
> 
> + *
> 
> + *	Copyright (c) 2007 Rainer Zimmermann <mail@lightshed.de>
> 
> + *
> 
> + *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> 
> + *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> 
> + *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> 
> + *   (at your option) any later version.
> 
> + *
> 
> + *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> 
> + *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> 
> + *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> 
> + *   GNU General Public License for more details.
> 
> + *
> 
> + *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> 
> + *   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> 
> + *   Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307 USA
> 
> + *
> 
> + */ 
> 
> 
> Why this is not enough, to merge his driver with alsa?

It's not enough to push to the mainline.
See $LINUX/Documentation/SubmittingPatches for details.

> I'm afraid that we lost contact with Rainer permamently. 

I too.


Takashi