ALSA in a 2.6 world
Charles R. Anderson
cra at WPI.EDU
Fri Apr 16 14:18:02 UTC 2004
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:21:24PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> I just realised that, with this thread, i re-opened the old and painful
> flamewar "why the Linux drivers are so tightly attached to the kernel,
> so that if i upgrade the kernel i have to upgrade all 3rd party drivers,
> or vice-versa". Tannenbaum scoffing at Torvalds for not using a
> microkernel, and all that...
It's not just a driver. ALSA is an entire *architecture* for moving
sound into and out of the system. Try replacing the entire sound
architecture of any other OS....
> Ah well, i was merely hoping i could avoid wasting the time required to
> recompile the kernel when a new ALSA version comes out.
Well, if you switch to FC2 when it comes out, then updating kernels
should be easy since there won't be any/many Fedora-specific patches
to miss in the standard kernel.
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