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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:55:43 +0000,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> 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.

Ah, that one.  Yeah, at that time I didn't want it because the span
between the addition and the removal was big, and it was more or less
only for debugging.

This time, it was introduced shortly ago, and the clean-up is really a
clean-up.

... Or, shorter to say -- a new-year's snow brought me a better mood
;)

Takashi