On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 04:13:12PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Mon, 6 Oct 2014 15:55:18 +0200, > Ondrej Zary wrote: > > ES938 does not depend on ES18xx and can be connected to any device with > > MIDI > > interface. Maybe there are some other cards with this chip. > > Please prove it :)
:( > That said, I'm not willing to merge the patch in the current form. > One of the reason is that this can be implemented pretty easily in > user-space. Another is that it's a deadly old device, and likely only > handful boards are still running in the world, thus no much motivation > to bloat the kernel code for that. We're even discussing to get rid > of ISA codes from the kernel tree nowadays. > > Sorry, the patch was submitted 10 years too late. :(( Given that I hate the forces that are increasingly coming into play here (but of course I do see the bigger picture, namely of kernel tree bloat), 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. Thus, given a "diffstat penalty" (lines added minus lines removed) of the vintage support patch: Additionally offer a cleanup patch which gets rid of redundantly implemented kernel tree functionality: - for 15 year old devices: 0.5 * diffstat_penalty - for 20 year old devices: 1.0 * diffstat_penalty - for 25 year old devices: 1.5 * diffstat_penalty - for 30 year old devices: whaaa? Hmm? Andreas Mohr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
