Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

By continually breaking the drivers, it forces someone to look over them when updating and maybe fix other problems.

Taybin

-----Original Message-----
>From: Christian Schoenebeck <cuse@email-addr-hidden>
>Sent: Mar 14, 2007 10:17 AM
>To: The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List <linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hiddenia.edu>
>Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game
>
>Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2007 14:16 schrieb Paul Davis:
>> in theory, you certainly can. but the kernel development team, and linus
>> in particular, are not interested in an engineering effort/long term
>> approach that makes this feasible. if you define a stable driver binary
>> interface, you can change the kernel out around it and drivers keep
>> working. linus has made it clear that he sees no reason to do this, and
>> is perhaps even opposed to it for some possibly sound engineering
>> arguments (though that is open to debate).
>
>And what are these arguments?
>
>CU
>Christian
Received on Wed Mar 14 20:15:02 2007