Re: [RFC] compatibility between alsa-kernel and alsa-lib

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 17:39 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com> writes:
> 
> > > Yes, that's a missing part, so far.
> > > 
> > > Currently, we keep the backward compatibility as much as possible.
> > > For example, if a control element is renamed, we keep the old
> > > entry with "optional true" attribute so that the same config works
> > > for older version.  But, this wouldn't work if the device number
> > > changes or any other critical change occurs.
> > > 
> > > The versioned config would be a solution.  The question is how to
> > > take the version number/string.  One possible idea is that a card
> > > provides a read-only control element named "Version" with
> > > IFACE_CARD.  Or simply a new ioctl for this purpose.
> > > 
> > > Anyway, this implementation should be more discussed on alsa-devel
> > > ML.
> > 
> > let's forward it alsa-devel@ ml then.
> 
> is nobody interested in ensuring compatibility between alsa-lib &
> alsa-kernel?
> see linus statements about greg wanted to break compatibility with
> older udev...

I thought it was already ALSA policy for a year or so not to make
incompatible changes between alsa-lib and alsa-kernel.

Lee


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