On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:13 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote:
This discussion also began from the difficulties that sound card
manufacturers have in supporting Linux. They cannot simply include a
binary
driver module which the user can install on his system. This is true
whether they
include source code or not.
This is an impediment to manufacturer's supporting Linux.
No, it's not - all they have to do is submit the driver to the kernel
developers in an acceptable state, and they don't have to worry about
further support.
Are you really so out of touch or is this just a persona you have assumed
for this discussion?
Once it is submitted to the kernel developers (well, the alsa developers
since we are talking about sound cards) it takes a while to actually come
out in a release kernel. Then it takes a while (>1 year) for that kernel to
be incorportated into a distribution (in the case of Debian more like a
decade). And then many users still continue to use old distributions. The
manufacturer is supposed to sit back and think this is OK. Sheesh.
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