Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Pushing device/driver binding decisions to userspace | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:51:26 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 08:58 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Now; there is a second issue. If the choice for one or the other is > consistent, we should consider fixing the kernel drivers to just not > advertise the b0rked one.. (this assumes that both drivers are in the > kernel and both are open source)
Unfortunately it becomes political quickly. For example the old OSS i810_audio driver is still in the kernel even though the ALSA driver supports more hardware and provides more functionality because some people consider the ALSA driver bloated.
Lee
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