At Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:00:22 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:10:27AM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > Right, if you are a developer, it's fine (and even better). But, my > > > concern is that the whole linux kernel tree might be too heavy for > > > some casual user who just wants to try the latest version of ALSA > > > driver... "Download 50MB and use 350MB disk space just for a single > > > fix? Hell, no!" > > > You'll certainly get a lot fewer users of the latest driver code if they > > have to download, compile and install a entire new kernel. There are > > plenty of people who will install new drivers, but won't even consider > > switching from the kernel their distro came with. > > Judging from what I've seen on the IRC channels I hang around on I get > the impression that relatively few people doing this on a user level > (typically people with shiny new laptops and so on) are using hg to > access the drivers - they mostly seem to be using either the snapshot or > release tarballs to update their existing kernels. So long as those are > available in a similar form I would expect these users would be > unaffected. I have a same impression. I started providing daily snapshot tarballs because so many people avoid HG when I requested for testing. A snapshot tarball (of each commit at best) would be a convenient solution for most of users, I guess. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
