Re: [ALSA PATCH] 1.0.9b+

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:06:02PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:

 > > The git-alsa.patch in -mm which I obtain from
 > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa-current.git is
 > > empty.  So we're now wanting to merge 4,000 lines of unreviewed code which
 > > hasn't been tested in -mm at approximately the -rc4 stage.
 > 
 > Lots of people install ALSA independently from the kernel (like all the
 > audio oriented distro users), probably a lot more than run -mm, so it's
 > not completely unreviewed.

There's a big difference between 'unreviewed' and 'untested'.
With drivers that support n variants of a piece of hardware,
hearing back that a driver works fine from someone isn't really
worth anything if the changes break for all the other users
of that driver that have a different variant, which haven't tested it yet.

We have a testing/review process in place, attempts to short-circuit
it should be prevented. Especially from a subsystem that
historically has had a number of issues wrt regressions each release.

		Dave