[alsa-devel] move snd-aloop to the alsa-kernel tree?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:50:37 +0200 (CEST),
Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > At Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:17:10 +0200 (CEST),
> > Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >>  	does anyone have any objection to move the loop module (snd-aloop)
> >> from the alsa-driver tree to the alsa-kernel tree (Linux 2.6 tree)?
> >>  	I worked on these things last days:
> >>
> >> - fixed timing issues (we cannot use the identical period
> >>    timing for both playback/capture - it also means that the capture and
> >>    playback buffer setup might be different)
> >> - added proper buffer silencing when the playback is in the draining phase
> >> - added stream parameters change notification (stop the capture stream
> >>    when the playback stream parameters were changed)
> >> - added controls to propagate the playback stream parameters to the
> >>    user space with the notification of changes
> >> - added simple time shift functionality to compensate the time drift for
> >>    another clock source
> >
> > Sounds good.  But, let's merge it into 2.6.37.
> 
> I don't see any reason to wait with merging of this pretty generic driver 
> while 2.6.36-rc1 is not released, but I'm not in a hurry :-)

As a generic rule, all new features to be merged should have appeared
in linux-next (i.e. also mm tree) before the merge window opened.


Takashi