2009/1/12 Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de:
At Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:42:06 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
Sounds good to me. One can keep the wrapper outside of the kernel, and only available in alsa-driver for those out of tree people.
Yes, that's good. I think it'd be better to do that after one kernel-cycle later for a softer landing, though.
How soft do we need this? The change is probably max of 3 lines of code per sound card that has an out of tree driver. The only one I am aware of is the xfi one. With the wrapper being more than 3 lines of code being put into the kernel only to be removed again seems a little un-necessary to me. For internal kernel changes, I don't think we should care about out of kernel drivers. None of the rest of the kernel developers go out of their way for anything out-of-mainline.
Kind Regards
James