To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Patrick McFarland <pmcfarland@downeast.net>
Subject: Re: OSS Audio borked between 2.6.6 and 2.6.10
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From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
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Date: 13 Mar 2005 22:50:00 -0500
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Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> writes:

> The intel8x0 driver is probably one of the most widely used ALSA drivers, so 
> I'd hope it wasn't broken! 

I would have hoped so too at the time. Reporting it to the list didn't get any
response since it was already fixed upstream, but it took a while before it
was merged down to the linux tree.

Also, it seems chipsets can be wired up differently in different motherboards.
A driver can work perfectly for hundreds of boards and still fail on the same
chipset on another machine.

In any case "X code is broken" "why not use Y code instead" isn't really
productive. It's a good thing I was using the OSS drivers; if everyone used
the alsa drivers and nobody was testing the OSS drivers nobody would know they
were broken.

-- 
greg

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