[alsa-devel] [PATCH 00/30 v3] ALSA: Enhancement for existed FireWire drivers

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:21:18 +0900,
Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> 
> On 2014年11月30日 04:35, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > For ease of further development, I merged a part of this big patch
> > series, the ones doing merely code shuffling or some obvious things.
> > Namely, the dice changes below:
> 
> Thank you. But
> 
> >>   ALSA: dice: remove experimental state
> 
> I think this is hasty for for-next branch.
> 
> With the applied patches, the Dice driver cannot still handle a device
> which I own. Furthermore, I've got some reports from reticent testers
> that they use the driver without below codes:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/tree/sound/firewire/dice/dice.c#n88
> 
> I guess most of  Dice devices support both direction of streams, due to
> handling timestamp. In detail, please read my report:
> 
> 3.4 Duplex streams with timestamp synchronization
> https://github.com/takaswie/alsa-firewire-report
> 
> Can I request you to remove the patch from linux-next branch? This patch
> should be applied after 27th patch, at least:
> 
> [alsa-devel] [PATCH 27/30] ALSA: oxfw: Add support AMDTP in-stream
> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2014-November/084816.html

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is already pretty useless, distro kernels enable
this in anyway.  I see no big reason to keep it at all.  The kernel
developers already discussed to drop this kconfig.


Takashi