From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: gene.heskett@verizon.net,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.11.1
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:16:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110313019.4600.8.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1110215898.3072.65.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 17:18 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2005-03-05 at 22:06, Lee Revell wrote:
> > Driver updates are a hard problem. Nothing annoys users more than
> > unsupported hardware. But if you aggressively add support for new
> > devices you can break things that have worked for ages.
>
> You can however plan for them in advance. Guess why the -ac tree has an
> ide
> option to grab any otherwise unknown ide controller and stuff it in bios
> tuned
> DMA modes ?
>
> Similarly you can generally apply "just PCI id" patches
Yup. A much simpler example is my emu10k1 multichannel patches that are
in ALSA CVS now. The function of an (obscure) mixer control changes
subtly, so the control is renamed to guarantee that the user gets the
default setting.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-08 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-04 17:53 Linux 2.6.11.1 Greg KH
2005-03-04 17:53 ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 20:34 ` Ian Pilcher
2005-03-04 22:29 ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 20:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04 20:58 ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 21:15 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04 21:43 ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 21:54 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04 22:08 ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 21:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-04 21:59 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04 22:05 ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 22:36 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-05 0:06 ` Greg KH
2005-03-05 0:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-05 7:53 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-06 5:05 ` Greg KH
2005-03-05 1:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-06 5:03 ` Greg KH
2005-03-05 9:51 ` Russell King
2005-03-05 17:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-05 17:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-05 17:46 ` Russell King
2005-03-05 21:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-05 21:49 ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-05 22:06 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-05 23:26 ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-07 17:18 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-08 20:16 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-03-05 17:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-05 18:22 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-03-05 0:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-04 21:15 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-04 21:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-04 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04 21:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-05 7:11 ` James Bourne
2005-03-08 22:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-03-08 22:41 ` Chris Wright
2005-03-04 21:50 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-04 23:35 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-03-04 20:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-03-04 20:53 ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 21:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-03-05 18:32 ` L. A. Walsh
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-04 19:28 Paolo
2005-03-04 19:55 ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 20:01 ` Paolo
2005-03-04 20:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-05 6:16 Shawn Starr
2005-03-06 5:06 ` Greg KH
2005-03-07 4:01 ` Shawn Starr
2005-03-07 3:58 ` Randy.Dunlap
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