Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765557AbXF1UXs (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:23:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762629AbXF1UXl (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:23:41 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:51937 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757619AbXF1UXl (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:23:41 -0400 Message-ID: <46841873.7040906@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:22:11 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rene Herman CC: Nix , Adrian Bunk , Olivier Galibert , Takashi Iwai , Tomasz K?oczko , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? References: <20070624200837.16e11305@the-village.bc.nu> <20070624215724.025a5de5@the-village.bc.nu> <20070625124442.GA44019@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20070625132107.GD1094@stusta.de> <87tzssextf.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> <468413D2.60101@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <468413D2.60101@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 732 Lines: 19 Rene Herman wrote: > Anyways, I suspect at least Takashi Iwai would simply say "no" to > removing or deprecating the in kernel emulation anyway, although it's > not likely to grow features anymore. Even if he fails to say "no" in such a case, many other people would stand up and do so :) In Linux we generally do not want to remove binary userspace interfaces. Breaking (i.e. changing) the in-kernel API is fine, but breaking the userspace ABI is quite another matter. Jeff - 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/