Steve Long wrote:
This is perfectly reasonable where it is a card with drivers in both, but
alas-drivers supports a broader range of hardware, eg the echo audio cards
(guess who has one ;) which have never been available in-kernel.
These were added to the kernel as of 2.6.18.
But it is still an interesting point: how does bug handling work when
the drivers are actually not in the kernel at all?
I think the alsa herd would be expected to handle bugs here, although
I'd readily help them out as I do for other external driver maintainers.
I guess I'd like some assurance that as long as alsa-drivers supports
hardware for which there are no kernel drivers, it will at least be
available in the portage tree.
Yes, I think we can promise that, provided that the drivers have some
level of support upstream too. I did a quick check and it appears that
right now, there are no drivers provided by alsa-driver which are not in
the kernel source.
It might be worth stripping duplicate drivers out of alsa-drivers altogether
so that the two might even co-exist? Would eliminate the bug duplication in
any event.
This is something that can be considered later, although I have my doubts...
Daniel
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