Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261720AbVC3Bts (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:49:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261716AbVC3Btf (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:49:35 -0500 Received: from ds01.webmacher.de ([213.239.192.226]:54173 "EHLO ds01.webmacher.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261709AbVC3Bt1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:49:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1112139564.31848.65.camel@gaston> 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> <1112139564.31848.65.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <3437534780e9f73588875e8964bac2ed@dalecki.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Chris Friesen , Lee Revell , Linux Kernel list , Takashi Iwai From: Marcin Dalecki Subject: Re: Mac mini sound woes Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:48:57 +0200 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1121 Lines: 30 On 2005-03-30, at 01:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > 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. You are joking? Linux IS NOT an RT OS. And well not too long ago you could be jailed for example in germany for using not well behaving communication devices. - 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/