Re: [RFC] Pushing device/driver binding decisions to userspace
- From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:18:59 +0100
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 13:51 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
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.
I doubt distros ship both though.... I thought all distros were
alsa-only by now..
also this is a case of "full overlap", which isn't a real problem (it's
just policy which module to load); the problem is when you NEED 2
modules to get full coverage and then they overlap..
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