Josh Saddler napsal(a): > I completely disagree with your assessment of the in-kernel hda-intel > state. My workstation uses one of those (labelled nVidia MCP 55, for the > curious), and my experiences with in-kernel ALSA have been nothing but > positive with the intel audio, whether compiled or as modules.
I could say the same about your assessment of the in-kernel hda-intel drivers, as could many other users... Same for via82xx - never had much luck with the in-kernel drivers, plus upgrading the whole kernel over and over again just to test whether something got fixed is a major PITA. As said, these are two different branches, what works for somebody doesn't need to work for someone else. > For the record, the kernel and alsa team have gone back and forth on > this for a long time -- and it's always been my task to update the ALSA > guide for whichever "wins", or at least that's how it's been lately. The > thing about ALSA upstream not accepting certain bugs -- I'm not sure > Diego ever mentioned any such thing; is this really true? I really don't get these fights, the two things can co-exist quite nicely and users can benefit from this. What's this need to 'deprecate' the external stuff once again about? (And yeah, ALSA upstream doesn't deal with in-kernel drivers bugs.) > At the very least, this should cut down on spurious bug reports on our > own bugzilla. However, it'd be nice from the point of view of the GDP if > the kernel and ALSA maintainers would decide, once and for all, what > should be supported and what shouldn't, whether in-kernel or > alsa-drivers is recommended. Because it's been going back and forth for > years as to which gets priority in the docs. Pick something for the > users to install and stick with it, please. Both should be supported, as explained above. Spurious bugs? Not really sure what you mean. And no, kernel 2.4 is definitely not *the* reason to keep the external alsa drivers supported (Frankly I'd be very happy to see the whole 2.4 kernel branch declared as unsupported on Gentoo - noone's really testing anything against those kernels these days and the bugs are lingering there for ages as noone cares; even the 2.4 kernels we still have in the tree are pretty much unmaintained). -- Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG signature: http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCEBA3D9E Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA 3D9E ... still no signature ;)
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