Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161158AbWAMLiJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:38:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161180AbWAMLiI (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:38:08 -0500 Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]:16436 "EHLO mtaout3.012.net.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161158AbWAMLiG (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:38:06 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:37:56 +0200 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware In-reply-to: <1137105731.2370.94.camel@mindpipe> To: Lee Revell Cc: Adrian Bunk , Jon Mason , Jiri Slaby , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <20060113113756.GL5399@granada.merseine.nu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <20060112175051.GA17539@us.ibm.com> <43C6ADDE.5060904@liberouter.org> <20060112200735.GD5399@granada.merseine.nu> <20060112214719.GE17539@us.ibm.com> <20060112220039.GX29663@stusta.de> <1137105731.2370.94.camel@mindpipe> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1269 Lines: 33 On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:42:10PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 23:00 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > CYBER5050 is discussed in ALSA bug #1293 (tester wanted). > > OK I set that bug to FEEDBACK, but it's open 5 months now and no testers > are forthcoming. I think if we don't find one as a result of this > thread we can assume no one cares about this hardware anymore. > > 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? ... or use the known working OSS driver? > 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. So you advocate removing a known working driver in favor of a known not to be working driver? nice. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ - 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/