[alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/7] ASoc updates for -next

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:55:29AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> Well, in this case, it's more logical to merge them into 2.6.29
> because that API change was introduced first on 2.6.29, and then we
> are now trying to kill it again.  By merging the clean-up patches,
> such an intermediate API change will be gone gracefully.

Yeah, I agree entirely - the cases I was thinking of were similar things
like the pop wait timer which was only in sysfs for one kernel release.