Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>, Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>,
       Jiri Slaby <slaby@liberouter.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:55:44 -0500
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On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 23:52 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > I'm still not sure that just adding it to the ALSA driver and hoping it
> > works is the best solution.  Would we rather users see right away that
> > their hardware isn't supported, or have the driver load and get no sound
> > or hang the machine?
> > 
> > I think the best approach might just be to drop it in lieu of a tester.
> > It will be trivial to add support later if someone finds one of these
> > boxes.
> 
> Agreed.
> 

OK I'm just going to close that bug, the one person who seemed to know
anything about it had this to say:

"The cyberpro 5050 is an old combined video+audio controller - and
is/was used in some settop boxes (German Siemens Activity and also
Loewe).

There will be no "desktop users" around.
And because I don't work for Loewe anymore: I don't have access to
hardware.

If you ask me: leave it out!"

Anyone who finds one of these is free to reopen it.

Lee

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