On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:39:58PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:29:13PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Can find anything bogus with it, although it doesn't speak for ALSA that > > > it's about 10times as much code as the beep support I added to the > > > dmasound driver. But as Jens said please get it included upstream > > > first. If it's accepted we can still backport it into 2.6.7-based > > > packages. > > > > Christoph, i am not really sure i care all that much for this "please > > let's it included upstream first" philosophy. It let the control over > > what we will have or not in the debian kernel totally out of our hand, > > which is not something i am 100% confortable with. > > We don't give it 100% out of hand. We can still decide what to take and > what not. But I'm very much against patches where the authors haven't > even bothered to post them upstream because that will lead to a huge > amount of patches we'll have to carry along.
Well, but we can give them a wider testing audience, and accompany the author in the upstream submission process and give him a bit more security. Friendly, Sven Luther
