Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:52:05 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware |
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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.
The majority of Linux users doesn't read linux-kernel...
We might find users after the OSS driver is deprecated in a released kernel, or perhaps some months after it's removed from the kernel.
This would match my current experiences regarding my suggested removal of some OSS drivers.
> 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? > > 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.
Agreed.
> Lee
cu Adrian
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