[alsa-devel] [PATCH 00/25] line6usb cleanup

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:35:01 +0100,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> At Sun, 11 Jan 2015 15:04:55 -0600,
> Chris Rorvick wrote:
> > 
> > > At Fri,  9 Jan 2015 23:35:46 -0600,
> > > Chris Rorvick wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I have a TonePort UX2 that I've used for testing, meaning that some of
> > >> this is really only compile-tested.
> > >
> > > If anyone is responsible for testing with real hardware, I'll happily
> > > review.
> > 
> > To be clear, the TonePort UX2 is real hardware.  But this driver
> > basically supports four classes of Line 6 devices and I'm only covering
> > one of them.
> > 
> > So this series is a first step in trying to address this.  Having this
> > as a single driver probably made sense when it was a separate project,
> > but now that it is in-tree it seems like the POD, PODHD, TonePort, and
> > Variax pieces should each be separate drivers that each depend on a core
> > Line 6 driver.  I think the cleanup in this series will make that
> > easier.  None of this is my area of expertise, though, so advice and
> > feedback is very welcome.
> > 
> > > are there any active developers for this driver?
> > 
> > I intended to do further work.  I know there is quite a bit of mundane
> > checkpatch cleanup that would need to get done before this could get
> > promoted, and I believe I read that it's using sysfs for stuff that
> > would normally be done via an ALSA interface, and the sysfs interface
> > has not been documented nor has it been justified.  All stuff I thought
> > I might look into.
> > 
> > But I'm just doing this for fun so I can't promise anything.  :-)
> 
> OK, so the situation looks fairly good, we have a few active
> developers and/or testers.  And the current code doesn't look so
> terrible despite of it being in staging directory.  That said, I think
> we can promote this stuff into sound/usb/line6 directory, then apply
> Chris' cleanup patches, and work on it further.
> 
> Does it sound OK for you guys?  Greg?
> 
> Once when I get approval, I'll start a new clean branch on sound.git
> tree so that you guys can work on it further for 3.20 kernel.

JFYI, I merged all patches Greg forwarded to me into topic/line6
branch of sound git tree.  It's included to linux-next, so you can
work on linux-next or my branch as well.

Now the code has been moved from driver/staging/line6 to
sound/usb/line6.  I'm going to apply some driver rename and cleanup
patches to follow to other ALSA driver standards, and think of
splitting to each driver with a core line6 helper module after that.

Feel free to send the further development patches to me and/or
alsa-devel ML like other sound drivers.


thanks,

Takashi