From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:21:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sorrow.cyrius.com ([65.19.161.204]:24324 "EHLO sorrow.cyrius.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133390AbWBTPUw (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:20:52 +0000 Received: by sorrow.cyrius.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 9BC9564D3D; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by deprecation.cyrius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4F2688DC5; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:27:36 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:27:36 +0000 From: Martin Michlmayr To: Jordan Crouse Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Diff between Linus' and linux-mips git: drivers! Message-ID: <20060220152736.GB4796@deprecation.cyrius.com> References: <20060219234318.GA16311@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20060220152734.GM30429@cosmic.amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060220152734.GM30429@cosmic.amd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 10570 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: tbm@cyrius.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips * Jordan Crouse [2006-02-20 08:27]: > Meh - I think there's something to be said for platform specific trees. > Why bother Linus with code that 99% of the users will never compile? If there are any major changes to the video layer, people will fix your driver if it's in mainline; but not if it's in some obscure tree. Also, peer review, etc. > > sound/oss/au1550_i2s.c | 2029 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > I thought we agreed that this would stay in linux-mips until such > time that somebody (probably me) got annoyed enough to write an ALSA > driver. lkml people seem to be trying hard recently to finally get rid of OSS, so that would be nice. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/