On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 20:39 +0100, John Haxby wrote: > On the other hand, perhaps someone would volunteer to de-couple the > ALSA modules from the rest of the kernel in the kernel build so that > the ALSA modules can be updated and then we'll get to be able to > install newer versions of ALSA without waiting for Linus to pick up > the next version of ALSA. >
They already are decoupled. You can install the latest ALSA 1.0.11 on a 2.4 or even 2.2 kernel. The problem is that most of the distros just ship whatever's in the kernel tree - even if that version contains critical bugs that have been fixed in the ALSA tree. Yes, it's a lot of work, and it's unlikely that anyone will do it for free. This is the kind of thing that distros employ developers to do. It's not fun and not free (as in beer) but must be done if you want to ship a working system. Lee _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
