2002-02-27 08:19:08

by Jaroslav Kysela

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Subject: Re: sound/oss updates.

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:15:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > Is it worth me sending you the pending bits I have for sound/oss/ ?
> > > Is this going to be around in 2.6, or is this just a transitional thing?
> > > Or do you want them through Jaroslav ?
> >
> > I think we'll keep OSS around until people just don't care any more. Which
> > _may_ be before 2.6, but I doubt it.
> >
> > Ask Jaroslav if he is interested, but I suspect the answer will be to send
> > them to me.
>
> Hi Jaroslav,
> So, theres currently quite a lot of updates in sound/oss in 2.5-dj
> that are mostly forward ports of fixes from 2.4. What would you
> prefer here ?
> - Me splitting them up into per driver patches for you
> to include & then forward to Linus
> - You grabbing the sound/oss chunk from 2.5.5-dj2 patch en-masse.
> - Me forwarding straight to Linus
> - Something else ?

It would be probably good to maintain the /sound tree from one place, so
I can maintain the /sound/oss tree as well - allowing Linus to do
something more interesting ;-)

I am ready to maintain all sound related updates for 2.5.

Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <[email protected]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project http://www.alsa-project.org
SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com