[alsa-devel] [PATCH v3] ASoC: Tegra machine ASoC driverforboards using ALC5332 codec

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 13:58, Marc Dietrich <marvin24 at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2011, 13:05:50 schrieb Leon Romanovsky:
>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:47, Marc Dietrich <marvin24 at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > Am Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2011, 08:45:39 schrieb Leon Romanovsky:
>> >> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 23:00, Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com> wrote:
>> >> > Leon Romanovsky wrote at Monday, December 19, 2011 12:52 PM:
>> >> Before, I'm going to start pushing other parts of the audio, how do I
>> >> need to handle cross-tree patches ? For example I'll need to update
>> >> NVEC (staging tree) and platform_device (tegra and ASoC)
>> >> On which tree do I base my patches?
>> >
>> > If you have updates to other files beside the audio stuff (nvec or board
>> > stuff), you need to CC the relevant maintainers (see
>> > scripts/get_maintainer.pl).
>>
>> Different trees have different file versions, this is why i'm asking
>> "on which tree do I base my patches?"
>
> ok, I think patches for upstream should be based on the relevant subsystem trees
> (e.g. sound (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git), board
> (arm-soc
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc.git) and nvec (
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git). One may correct me
> where I'm wrong.
And how will you ensure that the proposed patches will compile well?
For example, Mark applied the tegra_alc5632.c patch into ASoC tree,
but in tegra tree this file still doesn't exist, so any my attempt to
link board-paz00.c (tegra tree) with tegra_alc5632. will lead to
compile failures.

> I know it is hard to test changes this way, but that's a common problem. I often use
> linux-next to create and test the patches and rebase them to the relevant subsystem
> trees before submitting. Maybe there is a better solution for it...
>
> Marc
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