[alsa-devel] asihpi - how much further?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:26:59 +1300,
Eliot Blennerhassett wrote:
> 
> Hi Takashi,
> 
> My boss has started asking how long is it going to take to get our driver into 
> mainline.  I.e. a list of things we need to do, that when all those items 
> have been dealt with, then the driver is accepted.
> Is it possible to make such a list?

I think the all coding style issues have been already listed in out
previous mails, even about pretty picky ones.  What I personally still
don't think good is the infrastructure of the driver - the separate
mangament of asihpi and hpimod.  This makes it hard to understand the 
code flow.  But, if it's your inevitable requirement, we can keep this
as is.  So, try to clean up the code as much as you can do now, and
then let's check and move to alsa-kernel tree.

My remaining concern is the further maintenance.  If I understand
correctly, you would like to maintain your driver code from the common
code-base among difference OSes and convert to the linux native one
via a script.  This would be difficult to pick up the upstream
changes.  But, again, it's your choice.  I'd just need to be careful
about the further merge from you in order not to break the upstream
changes...

> thanks and regards
> 
> Eliot Blennerhassett
> www.audioscience.com
> 
> 
> P.S. Heres a quote that I feel has some relevance:

Well, the merge is easy but the maintenance is not... :)


thanks,

Takashi