Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > Or, if from the get go it would have been included in the mainline > kernel source (after submitting it to the proper channels, etc, etc - > difficult but not impossible. Out of mainline kernel drivers have always > been a pain...).
True, but (1) as you mentioned, the barrier to entry is high, and (2) even if it is accepted, who is going to maintain it? Researchers are usually busy with other things, and are not delighted by the prospect to go with each and every new kernel release just to update a single driver. ;-) Maybe it's possible to unbundle the MidiShare Linux driver from the main sources. That alone would make it much easier to provide frequent updates or patches for different kernel versions, and would provide a path to get the driver into the kernel at some point. From my experience, the rest of the MidiShare sources should compile on any modern Linux distro without much ado. (Well, the old gtk apps included with Midishare can be a headache since they require the gtk1 compat libs, but this could be made a configure-time option.) > I did wrestle with midishare a while back for Planet CCRMA (for > openmusic, same as Dave) and I'm not looking forward to a rehash of > that :-) It would certainly be nice if PlanetCCRMA included Midishare again. :) I'm currently getting a new laptop on which I can finally run PlanetCCRMA alongside with SUSE again, so I'll probably look into that when I have the time. It shouldn't be too difficult to adapt my patches for FC8. Albert -- Dr. Albert Gr"af Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev