From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752117AbaJFTkv (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2014 15:40:51 -0400 Received: from dehamd003.servertools24.de ([31.47.254.18]:56657 "EHLO dehamd003.servertools24.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751213AbaJFTku (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2014 15:40:50 -0400 Message-ID: <5432F060.5060307@ladisch.de> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 21:41:20 +0200 From: Clemens Ladisch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Mohr , Takashi Iwai CC: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Ondrej Zary , Kernel development list Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Workable vintage driver support mechanism? (Re: [PATCH v3] ES938 support for ES18xx driver) References: <1412027079-15876-1-git-send-email-linux@rainbow-software.org> <201410061555.19007.linux@rainbow-software.org> <20141006184150.GA2465@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> In-Reply-To: <20141006184150.GA2465@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PPP-Message-ID: <20141006193955.578440.29596@dehamd003.servertools24.de> X-PPP-Vhost: ladisch.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Mohr wrote: > I think I have an idea which might be useful to accept: > for every piece of sufficiently "vintage" submission, > people would be tasked with offering (or somehow ensuring) > a sufficiently closely time-related cleanup in other places. The problem that such a new driver imposes is not a one-time reduction in overall kernel quality, but the ongoing maintenance effort. Regards, Clemens