Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:36:23 -0400 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty? |
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On 8/9/06, Sergei Steshenko <steshenko_sergei@list.ru> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 18:00:43 +0200 > Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 05:56:57PM +0200, Benoit Fouet wrote: > > > > > > > >Demand stable ABI. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > sorry for the noise, but it's been a while now since i began reading > > > mails from this list, and i must admit i don't always (never?) see the > > > point of such messages... > > > if you can help me understand, i'll be very happy to get something more > > > detailed from you... > > Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt > > > > Sam > > > > I love senselessness and technical incompetence of the document. > > As I was taught at school, to prove that a statement is wrong one > has to prove that it is wrong once. >
Yep, the only trick is that you need a valid proof ;)
> Regardless of what the document says stable ABI can be achieved > today - run a chosen Linux kernel version + chosen ALSA version under XEN or > similar, and assign sound card to these (chosen Linux kernel version + > chosen ALSA version). > > Redirect sound ('ncat' + friends) to this (chosen Linux kernel version + > chosen ALSA version) from your kernel in which developers refuse > to ensure stable ABI. > > Because of the chosen (kernel+ALSA) you have stable ABI regardless > of what Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt says and ALSA + kernel > developers think. >
You are confused. By your logic you do not need XEN at all - just take a kernel version + alsa and never change/update it - and viola! "stable" ABI.
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