On 11 Oct 2002, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > > Jack O'Quin wrote: > > > Can someone please explain what terrible problem we're trying to solve > > > that justifies introducing *any* breakage at all? > > > > > ALSA is part of the 2.5 kernel now. It is mainstream Linux software, > > > good technology, needed by many users. Isn't it about time to start > > > thinking and acting that way? > > Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > this is the very reason why "now" i asked. > > since the ALSA is now on the official kernel tree, we must follow to > > the standard rules, too. and the snd_ prefix is obviously ugly from > > this perspective. > > > > if we live alone as external, then we don't have to care - we could do > > as we like. but the mainstream means that such exception has to be > > excluded, too, at least before 2.5 turns into the "real mainstream", > > i.e. 2.6 (or 3.0). > > Are you saying that the "snd_" prefix violates standard Linux kernel > rules for device driver options? Did the kernel developers request > this change?
Well, they had objections but not major to disallow inclusion of ALSA to 2.5. I think that it would be good to follow standard kernel rules in this case. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project http://www.alsa-project.org SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel