Sergei Steshenko wrote:
This has ZERO to do with ALSA, so why did you post it here?
James
Because:
1) the thread is about stable ABI, among other things;
2) because people complain HERE that older version of ALSA with older
kernel version used to work and after the upgrade ALSA stops working;
3) because with stable ABI people would be able to simply use old BINARY
versions of ALSA with newer kernels and thus have no problem.
P.S. On Mandriva 2006.0 'xpdf' is broken. So, being constructively lazy,
I just replaced it with the one from Mandriva 10.2. Of course, I did this
by picking Mandriva 10.2 'xpdf' RPM. That is, I reverted to older BINARY
version.
I believe that ALSA users should have the ability to simply revert to older
binary version of ALSA as well.
You can currently use kernel alsa driver and userland alsa-lib with
different version number, and for some people it will work.
But a majority of the problems are caused by bugs being fixed in newer
versions. The bug fix might require changes to alsa-driver or alsa-lib
or both.
So, even with an ABI, people will still have problems. In fact the
kernel alsa ioctrl interface has not changed in a long time, so in
effect there has been an ABI for a considerable amount of time already,
but users still have problems.
Summary:
Even if we had what you request, it would most certainly not be "no
problem" for the user.
James
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