Re: OSS driver cleanups.

Piter Punk (piterpk@terra.com.br)
Tue, 04 Dec 2001 16:42:01 -0200


Jeff Garzik wrote:

>>>Out of curiosity, will ALSA also be available on the 24..xx kernels??
>>>Will there be a choice of useing OSS or ALSA??
>>>Will the ALSA drivers be the 0.9 series or the old 0.5 series??? AFAIK they
>
> IMHO ALSA should -never- go into 2.4. It's fine as a patch but 2.5 is
> the time for big merges, and since it's already available for 2.4
> outside the kernel there shouldn't be any need for backporting
>
> Jeff

I agree with Jeff. The better choice is wait and make big changes only

in 2.5. If anyone **needs** alsa, is possible download and configure then
outside kernel 2.4. "Stable" series isn't a good place to make experiences...

Bye,

Piter PUNK

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