Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932408AbVLUNd5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:33:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932409AbVLUNd5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:33:57 -0500 Received: from pop-siberian.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([207.69.195.71]:22519 "EHLO pop-siberian.atl.sa.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932408AbVLUNd5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:33:57 -0500 Message-ID: <43A958CF.2080908@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:29:51 -0500 From: Stephen Clark Reply-To: sclark46@earthlink.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010110 Netscape6/6.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Linus Torvalds , James Courtier-Dutton , Adrian Bunk , Sergey Vlasov , Ricardo Cerqueira , mchehab@brturbo.com.br, Linux Kernel Mailing List , video4linux-list@redhat.com, perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] 2.6.15-rc6: boot failure in saa7134-alsa.c References: <20051220131810.GB6789@stusta.de> <20051220155216.GA19797@master.mivlgu.local> <20051220191412.GA4578@stusta.de> <43A86B20.1090104@superbug.co.uk> <1135117067.27101.5.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1135117067.27101.5.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1358 Lines: 40 Lee Revell wrote: >On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 13:03 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >>Forcing (or even just encouraging) people to use loadable modules is >>just horrible. I personally run a kernel with no modules at all: it >>makes for a simpler bootup, and in some situations (embedded) it has >>both security and size advantages. >> >> > >With modules it's possible to test a new ALSA version without >recompiling the kernel or even rebooting. Encouraging people to build >it into the kernel would create a problematic barrier to entry for >debugging. With the amount of poorly documented hardware we support, >it's essential for preventing driver regressions for users to be able to >easily test the latest ALSA version. > >Lee > >- >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/ > > > Users don't want to be testers when they report problems and no on responds to the problem report! My $.02 Steve - 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/