[alsa-devel] [PATCH 3/5] ASoC: Add drivers for the Texas Instruments OMAP processors

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:43:31 +0100,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:13:11PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > Add common OMAP ASoC drivers and machine driver for Nokia N810. Currently
> > > supported features are:
> 
> > I postpone this patch until 2.6.26 merge is closed.
> > This is obviously a new stuff and it must be cooked for a while in mm
> > tree.
> 
> The main reason why this is new is that it depends on the architecture
> being added via the ARM tree - as with the PXA3xx AC97 changes it had
> been waiting for the required patches to be submitted by rmk, which just
> happened.  Given this it seems safe to merge it as-is - the entire
> machine shares the same sort of testing status and the patch isn't new
> in itself.

The problem is that it wasn't passed through mm tree at all.
It's a generic rule for merging a new stuff to the upstream tree.

If the stuff has to cooperate with the changes in other trees, pass it
seprately to Andrew (or give me a hint) so that it's put to mm tree
rightly at the next time.


Takashi