On Feb 7, 2008 6:27 AM, Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de wrote:
BTW, one big annoying thing is that developers have no complete kernel tree to access, and thus the patches that touch outside the ALSA subdirectory cannot be merged easily. People often send patches fixing together with OSS, etc, and I had to skip them. So, frankly, I'd love to have an access to the whole kernel tree. But, OTOH, this would make harder for other naive guys to give it a try because they need to download the big linux kernel tree git.
I was just wondering about this the other day.. I don't think using kernel git trees would put anyone off. Anyone working on a sound card driver would most likely already be familiar with using git w/ the upstream kernel anyway.
My own personal alsa use is in kernels with no loadable module support, so I can't use the standalone package to build modules anyway. I need the code integrated into the tree and I just do it by hand right now.
I've tinkered with libata (git) as well as alsa, and I think having it in git makes it a bit easier when dealing with upstream updates and merging.
-Andrew