Re: fatal oops in current CVS confirmed

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:17:08 -0500,
Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> >oops, sorry.  the bug had lived more than two months, so i wonder why 
> >this wasn't reported at all... 
> 
>   [ ... ]
> 
> >yes, and please remember that 0.9.0-final is not the final for ALSA.
> >we'll be able to release the fixed version ASAP.
> >
> >i guess you won't expect that, for example, the 2.6.0 kernel is
> >so perfect that all components work without any bugs :)
> 
> oh sure. i mean, i've known for more than 1 year that the PCM output
> on the cs4231 driver doesn't work anymore (at least not for the
> tropez+), but that's not going to get fixed any time soon, i
> suspect. someone has to get 0.5 installed, add some code to print all
> the registers, and then figure out why 0.9 doesn't do the right thing.
> 
> i wonder who that will be :)

i wonder, too :)

but this can't be the reason to postpone the 0.9.0-final tarball.
not all people don't like cvs or rc/beta versions to try, and such a
situation is surely one of the reason to have made such a bug hidden
for long time more than one year.


Takashi


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