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
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project http://www.alsa-project.org
SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com
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