[alsa-devel] [PATCH 00/11] Add AXD Audio Processing IP driver

[Qais Yousef]

On 10/29/2014 05:24 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:50:19AM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> cepted into staging until this is resolved?
>> If you are willing to abide by the staging rules:
>> 	- incremental patches only doing one thing at a time
>> 	- never break the build
>> 	- constantly moving forward to getting merged (i.e. no new
>> 	  features being added)
>>
>> I think it will be easier for you to do the work outside of the tree as
>> you are going to be changing the API, which is not going to be easy to
>> do in an incremental patch series.
>>
>> And yes, this isn't going to be a trivial amount of work, sorry.
> I am not sure if it can fit into staging model. The whole design of driver
> would need rework and all the infrastructure added here for exposing stuff
> to usermode will be thrown away, so this driver would simply need an
> major overhaul.
>
> If this was ALSA driver and we would need to plumb it for acceptance then
> would have made sense in include, but thats not the fact today
>
> Thanks

Thanks for all the comments Vinod. Looks like I made a bad judgement, 
clearly I wouldn't want to rewrite the code twice :) I'll take a closer 
look at using the framework and maybe start with the features that we 
know will work and build up the rest incrementally and address problems 
from there.

Thanks,
Qais