From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: HG vs GIT Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:18:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: <76366b180802070345u705c1a72ibebb27d909028405@mail.gmail.com> <20080207150022.GA8453@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> 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 308B1103873 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:18:20 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20080207150022.GA8453@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> 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: Mark Brown Cc: ALSA development , Trent Piepho List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:00:22 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:10:27AM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > Right, if you are a developer, it's fine (and even better). But, my > > > concern is that the whole linux kernel tree might be too heavy for > > > some casual user who just wants to try the latest version of ALSA > > > driver... "Download 50MB and use 350MB disk space just for a single > > > fix? Hell, no!" > > > You'll certainly get a lot fewer users of the latest driver code if they > > have to download, compile and install a entire new kernel. There are > > plenty of people who will install new drivers, but won't even consider > > switching from the kernel their distro came with. > > Judging from what I've seen on the IRC channels I hang around on I get > the impression that relatively few people doing this on a user level > (typically people with shiny new laptops and so on) are using hg to > access the drivers - they mostly seem to be using either the snapshot or > release tarballs to update their existing kernels. So long as those are > available in a similar form I would expect these users would be > unaffected. I have a same impression. I started providing daily snapshot tarballs because so many people avoid HG when I requested for testing. A snapshot tarball (of each commit at best) would be a convenient solution for most of users, I guess. Takashi