Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:44:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:43:14 -0500 Received: from khan.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.139]:21916 "EHLO khan.acc.umu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 08:41:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 14:41:40 +0100 From: David Weinehall To: Alan Cox Cc: "M. Edward Borasky" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue] Message-ID: <20011204144140.E360@khan.acc.umu.se> In-Reply-To:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:28:49AM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:28:49AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 06:31:38AM -0800, M. Edward Borasky wrote: > > What I'm trying to establish here is that if ALSA is to become the > > main-stream Linux sound driver set, it's going to need to support -- > > *fully* support -- the top-of-the-line sound cards like my M-Audio > > Delta 66. > > Not really. The number of people who actually care about such cards is > close to nil. What matters is that the API can cleanly express what > the Delta66 can do, and that you can write a driver for it under ALSA > without hacking up the ALSA core. Indeed. And I'm sure the ALSA-team would be delighted and fully willing to write a working driver, if mr Borasky donated an M-Audio Delta 66 together with full documentation to them... /David _ _ // David Weinehall /> Northern lights wander \\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/