Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:29:54 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: State of the Union: Wireless
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:03:24PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:53:57 +0100, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:38:58PM +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> > >...
> > > >We can always undo mistakes later, but 
> > > >we'll never get to that point if we don't start moving in one direction 
> > > >instead of ten.
> > > 
> > > You were right if there were ten, but there seem to be only two at the 
> > > moment. One stack will survive and one will die. There's no point in 
> > > deciding this now.
> > 
> > No, we'll end up with two stacks, some drivers using the first stack and 
> > some the second one.
> > 
> > You can't simply let one stack die because this would imply either 
> > rewriting all drivers using this stack or dropping support for some 
> > hardware.
> 
> So, you don't want to remove OSS drivers anymore, I take it.
> Can't let bad stacks die!

There are OSS drivers in the kernel that support hardware not supported 
by ALSA.

> -- Pete

cu
Adrian

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