From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rene Herman Subject: Re: [PATCH] Try to make our poor little ALS4000 driver worthy of its copious public specs (first step) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:24:29 +0200 Message-ID: <48AB481D.3030506@keyaccess.nl> References: <20080819203444.GA28132@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.201]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE6A243C9 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:23:24 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: "John L. Utz III" Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Andreas Mohr List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 20-08-08 00:08, John L. Utz III wrote: >> Never omitting any opportunity to complain about missing vendor >> cooperation, but what do they do once people actually do publish >> ample specs? - yeah, you got that right: NOTHING!! > > Congratulations on your patch, but i dont think this comment was > particularly helpful. Oh, come one. He had his tongue quite firmly and definitely in cheek... > Had the spec been released concurrent with the release of the chip, > who knows what would have happened? > > The ALS4k is not currently manufactured, so there is not a good > reason to invest development resources in supporting it. > > Time is better spent supporting new chips so that new distro releases > can support new computers so that computer vendors and end users will > feel less put out by having linux as the default OS for their brand > new computer! One of the main reasons for wanting specs over vendor supplied drivers in fact is to be able to support _old_ hardware -- hardware that the manfacturer feels no need to support anymore, but the users still want to use. As such, I believe the above is definitely off the mark. But anyways, he was definitely being "joke-ish". You took it way too seriously. Rene.