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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 06:12:57 +0200
From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
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Subject: Re: linux-2.4.22 released
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:55:44PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Reasons against:
> > <write here your opinion>
> >...
> 
> - ALSA is big and there are still some bugs in ALSA; there are more
>   urgent things to be fixed in 2.4
> - it's easy to use ALSA even when it's not inside the kernel
> - within a few months 2.6.0 will be released with ALSA included -
>   together with the point above I don't see a reason why ALSA would be
>   badly needed in 2.4

and... if one is clueless enough to be unable to compile ALSA outside the
kernel or to try 2.6, then he's a good candidate for those user-friendly
distros who ship it. Same for i2c.

Not that I wouldn't like to see those included, but there are far more urgent
things as you said, and not everything will get its way to 2.4.23.

Cheers,
Willy

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