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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
	Marcin Dalecki <martin@dalecki.de>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Mac mini sound woes
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:39:24 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1112139564.31848.65.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4249E3F4.8070005@nortel.com>

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 17:25 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > This is the exact line of reasoning that led to Winmodems.
> 
> My main issue with winmodems is not so much the software offload, but 
> rather that the vendors don't release full specs.
> 
> If all winmodem manufacturers released full hardware specs, I doubt 
> people would really complain all that much.  There's a fairly large pool 
> of talent available to write drivers once the interfaces are known.

Look at the pile of junk that are most winmodem driver implementations,
nothing I want to see in the kernel ever. Those things should be in
userland.

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-29 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-27 23:42 Mac mini sound woes Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-28  1:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-28  2:34   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-29  3:36 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-29  3:41   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-29  7:47   ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-03-29  8:18     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-29  9:22       ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-03-29 10:22         ` Takashi Iwai
2005-03-30  1:45           ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-03-30  2:08             ` Lee Revell
2005-03-30  4:14             ` Lee Revell
2005-03-30  5:15             ` Steven Rostedt
2005-03-29 22:13         ` Lee Revell
2005-03-29 23:25           ` Chris Friesen
2005-03-29 23:39             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-03-30  1:48               ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-03-30  5:42                 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-30  1:45           ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-03-29 10:02   ` Takashi Iwai
2005-03-29 11:04     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-29 12:12       ` Takashi Iwai
2005-03-29 19:05       ` Lee Revell
2005-03-29 19:31         ` Takashi Iwai
2005-03-29 20:11           ` Lee Revell
2005-03-29 22:03           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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