Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

Jeff Garzik
2007-06-28T20:23:48Z

Rene Herman wrote:
> Anyways, I suspect at least Takashi Iwai would simply say "no" to
> removing or deprecating the in kernel emulation anyway, although it's
> not likely to grow features anymore.

Even if he fails to say "no" in such a case, many other people would
stand up and do so :) In Linux we generally do not want to remove
binary userspace interfaces. Breaking (i.e. changing) the in-kernel API
is fine, but breaking the userspace ABI is quite another matter.

Jeff