At Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:36:37 -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
Takashi,
I also work for NVIDIA and am starting to work on some audio-related issues.
I'd like to get familiar with the flow of patches; where things get applied first and how they flow to public ALSA and kernel repositories, so:
I see the patch below has shown up in the snapshots at:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/alsa/alsa-driver/
What repository is that a snapshot of; a private repository of yours?
Sort of. It's created from two GIT repos, git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git and git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/alsa-driver-build.git
The former is the kernel git tree that is pulled for linux-next tree regularly, and is listed in kernel MAINTAINERS file. The latter git repo is the build stub for alsa-driver external builds. The latter contains no real kernel codes.
The alsa-driver-snapshot (and also daily tarballs) are created at each commit to these trees automatically on my server. Also this triggers alsa-driver-kmp packages for each SUSE distribution on OBS, too.
thanks,
Takashi