Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261248AbVC2Xks (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:40:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261649AbVC2Xks (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:40:48 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:63715 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261248AbVC2Xki (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:40:38 -0500 Subject: Re: Mac mini sound woes From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Chris Friesen Cc: Lee Revell , Marcin Dalecki , Linux Kernel list , Takashi Iwai In-Reply-To: <4249E3F4.8070005@nortel.com> References: <1111966920.5409.27.camel@gaston> <1112067369.19014.24.camel@mindpipe> <4a7a16914e8d838e501b78b5be801eca@dalecki.de> <1112084311.5353.6.camel@gaston> <1112134385.5386.22.camel@mindpipe> <4249E3F4.8070005@nortel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:39:24 +1000 Message-Id: <1112139564.31848.65.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 893 Lines: 24 On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 17:25 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > > This is the exact line of reasoning that led to Winmodems. > > My main issue with winmodems is not so much the software offload, but > rather that the vendors don't release full specs. > > If all winmodem manufacturers released full hardware specs, I doubt > people would really complain all that much. There's a fairly large pool > of talent available to write drivers once the interfaces are known. Look at the pile of junk that are most winmodem driver implementations, nothing I want to see in the kernel ever. Those things should be in userland. Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/