I am pretty sure that Linus will not want to be copied on all these emails. The result is likely to be that he reads none of them. I don't think that at this stage we should be talking to Linus Torvalds at all. He is probably too busy. I think that a much better approach would be to talk to the current kernel oss sound developers, and get alsa checked into the kernel via them. I think that one person should be responsible for linux kernel sound, so that Linus Torvalds does not have to ignore so much email due to overload.
When I have too many emails in my email box, single short(5 lines) emails get read, whole discussion threads get left unread. So a simple "Here is the final alsa sound patch for the kernel" from someone Linus already knows would in my view be more successful. My 2 cents. James > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Garzik > Sent: 12 February 2002 00:23 > To: Dan Mann > Cc: Jaroslav Kysela; ALSA development; LKML; Linus Torvalds > Subject: [Alsa-devel] Re: ALSA patch for 2.5.4 > > > Dan Mann wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 09:16, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > > I repeat myself but anyway. We are open to any suggestions and > > > ideas for this kernel integration patch. Unfortunately, Linus has not > > > approved this directory tree and he is not talking with us at > the time. > > > It seems that BIO changes are over, but he's probably busy enough to > > > ignore our e-mails with co-operation requests. > > > There are at least 2 reasons that I can see why Linus probably won't > > accept your patch: > > > > 1. It is not an inline text attachment (it is a URL). > > 2. It is 79,000 lines long > > Well, merging ALSA is going to be one big mother of a patch no matter > how you slice it :) > > But I agree, it would be nice for the patch to be broken up into steps, > ie. first patch moves OSS drivers into new location, second patch adds > infrastructure, third patch adds the 1001 drivers that ALSA supports :) > > Also if the ALSA guys wanted to experiment with BK, that would be a > great way to do the merge. > > Jeff > > > > -- > Jeff Garzik | "I went through my candy like hot oatmeal > Building 1024 | through an internally-buttered weasel." > MandrakeSoft | - goats.com > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
