Re: [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware

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.
>
> 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?

... or use the known working OSS driver?

> 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.

So you advocate removing a known working driver in favor of a known
not to be working driver? nice.

Cheers,
Muli
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/

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