> Besides, I'm impatient, I want to start working on SMP-safe network
> drivers, oh, last month.

then, why don't you learn and work on audio drivers?

although personally i'm not interested in audio drivers,
i had some thought and patches for audio drivers in my local tree
while ago.  it seemed straightforward except for halt methods which
i think some synchronizations specific to each drivers are needed.
although i suspended the work because kent started audio branches
at the same time.

YAMAMOTO Takashi