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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, perex@suse.cz,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove unused funcion proc_mknod
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 16:45:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB6CD68.9010506@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030505213004.B24006@lst.de>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Jaroslav, can we just drop that junk or is it still used by userland.
> And if yes how long will it take to get an alsa-libs release out to
> not rely on it?


Not commenting on this issue specifically, but in general, alsa-lib can 
be used to mitigate the effect of kernel changes on userland.

This was a big selling point for ALSA, back when we were trying to 
decide what to do about OSS.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-05 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-05 17:00 [PATCH] remove unused funcion proc_mknod Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-05 19:22 ` viro
2003-05-05 19:30   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-05 20:45     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-05-09 11:43     ` Jaroslav Kysela
2003-05-09 11:47       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-09 11:55         ` Jaroslav Kysela

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