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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Sergei Steshenko <steshenko_sergei@list.ru>
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty?
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:13:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155139999.26338.178.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608091207.26156.gene.heskett@verizon.net>

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> This walks and qwacks like the alsa interface has been diddled, again.
> But since it KNOWS what hardware its running, in this case an audigy
> 2, not Value, so why was apparently working code broken and then
> commited to the kernel tree? 

It's a bug.  The interface was not changed intentionally.  ALSA policy
for at least a year has been "no incompatible changes".

Lee


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-09 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-09 15:40 another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty? Gene Heskett
2006-08-09 15:46 ` [Alsa-user] " Sergei Steshenko
2006-08-09 15:53   ` Lee Revell
2006-08-09 15:56   ` Benoit Fouet
2006-08-09 16:00     ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-08-09 16:17       ` Sergei Steshenko
2006-08-09 16:33         ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-08-09 16:36         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-09 16:44           ` Sergei Steshenko
2006-08-09 17:54             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-09 19:53               ` Sergei Steshenko
2006-08-09 16:07   ` Gene Heskett
2006-08-09 16:13     ` Takashi Iwai
2006-08-09 16:33       ` Gene Heskett
2006-08-09 16:13     ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-08-09 16:29     ` Gene Heskett

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