On Dec 9 2016 23:06, Arnaud Pouliquen wrote:
Anyway, we're mostly on the end of development for 4.10 cycle, and the review process for new feature might be delay till 4.10-rc1 release, two weeks later. During the weeks. bug fixes are preferable to be applied.
Thank you for warning me. No problem for the delay, i fully understand that focus is on bug fixes. Notice that it is quite difficult for developers to find the best timing to address this kind of patch, as integration process is not always simple to follow... this probably come with experience.
ALSA is a development project for sound subsystem of Linux operating system, and our work is a part of Linux kernel. Therefore, it's better to follow generic behavior in Linux kernel development.
So if i well understand your remark the best windows to integrate a feature for the version N+1, is to propose patch from N-rc1 tag. (expecting that patch-set is enough mature to be integrated in N+1...)
It's a better way if you're aware of maintainers' work and your task allows you to do things steadily.
Regards
Takashi Sakamoto