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From: Piter Punk <piterpk@terra.com.br>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OSS driver cleanups.
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 16:42:01 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0D18F9.4070708@terra.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112041146480.24822-100000@netfinity.realnet.co.sz> <3C0CDF3A.2B1AFC56@mandrakesoft.com>

Jeff Garzik wrote:


>>>Out of curiosity, will ALSA also be available on the 24..xx kernels??
>>>Will there be a choice of useing OSS or ALSA??
>>>Will the ALSA drivers be the 0.9 series or the old 0.5 series??? AFAIK they
> 
> IMHO ALSA should -never- go into 2.4.  It's fine as a patch but 2.5 is
> the time for big merges, and since it's already available for 2.4
> outside the kernel there shouldn't be any need for backporting
> 
> 	Jeff

I agree with Jeff. The better choice is wait and make big changes only

in 2.5. If anyone **needs** alsa, is possible download and configure then
outside kernel 2.4. "Stable" series isn't a good place to make experiences...


					Bye,

							Piter PUNK
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      reply	other threads:[~2001-12-04 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-03  9:11 OSS driver cleanups Zwane Mwaikambo
2001-12-03  9:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-04  0:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-04 16:49   ` Jamie Lokier
2001-12-04 16:55     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-04 17:29       ` [s-h] " Takashi Iwai
2001-12-04 16:34         ` gmack
2001-12-04 17:42         ` Alan Cox
2001-12-04 17:10     ` Alan Cox
2001-12-04 17:15       ` Jordan Breeding
2001-12-04 17:42         ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-04 20:24         ` Dan Hollis
2001-12-05  6:23       ` J Sloan
2001-12-05 11:05         ` Takashi Iwai
2001-12-04  1:18 ` John Gluck
2001-12-04  9:50   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2001-12-04 14:35     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-04 18:42       ` Piter Punk [this message]

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