From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: Alsa 0.9 and 2.4 kernel Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 17:03:32 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <20020916142553.Y19700@thot.informatik.uni-kl.de> <20020916164642.A19700@thot.informatik.uni-kl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20020916164642.A19700@thot.informatik.uni-kl.de> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Joerg Mayer Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:46:42 +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 04:41:39PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > Are there any plans to send alsa 0.9 (or 1.0 or whatever) to Marcelo for > > > inclusion into the official 2.4 tree? > > > > i don't believe that alsa will be intergated into 2.4 line. > > this will bring too much diffs - the whole bunch of oss tree is > > moved, if we keep the consistent structure with 2.5. > > I agree that oss must not be touched in 2.4, but I see no reason to > not include it (as an alternative to oss) in the official tree, especially > as the distribution vendors are adopting it already. the problem is that 2.5 tree puts oss stuffs on the different location (linux/sound/oss) than 2.4 has (linux/driver/sound). thus, we cannot keep the same tree structure between 2.4 and 2.5. yes, it's possible to put only alsa tree but i don't see big advantage there. > > all the current alsa-kernel codes are based on 2.5, and we provide > > additional wrappers for 2.4. is there any problem in this regard? > > I obviously wrote a different question than I intended to ask :-/ > I was wondering about module names, nothing else. renaming which module, do you mean? i don't think any sound-related module names have been changed since 2.4. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf