On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 16:54 +0100, Albert Graef wrote: > Jay Vaughan wrote: > > Well I have it working fine on both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, so I don't know > > what the dilemna is here, really .. > > Judging from what I read on the Midishare list, most Linux users of > Midishare indeed have trouble dealing with compilation probs in the > kernel module. Not you and me, but you can't expect end users to be able > to handle problems due to the ever-changing kernel API. This stuff isn't > trivial. You don't have to be a kernel hacker (I'm certainly not), but > you really need to understand the Midishare code if you have to sift the > kernel headers for a replacement for some kernel routine which just > miraculously disappeared, thanks to your friendly kernel dev cleaning up > the kernel code. I've done it more than once...
That's exactly why it should be either moved into the mainline kernel (no, I'm not voluteering to do that :-) or completely into user space. What is it that makes that last option impossible? -- Fernando _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev