By continually breaking the drivers, it forces someone to look over them when updating and maybe fix other problems.
Taybin -----Original Message----- >From: Christian Schoenebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Mar 14, 2007 10:17 AM >To: The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List ><linux-audio-dev@music.columbia.edu> >Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game > >Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2007 14:16 schrieb Paul Davis: >> in theory, you certainly can. but the kernel development team, and linus >> in particular, are not interested in an engineering effort/long term >> approach that makes this feasible. if you define a stable driver binary >> interface, you can change the kernel out around it and drivers keep >> working. linus has made it clear that he sees no reason to do this, and >> is perhaps even opposed to it for some possibly sound engineering >> arguments (though that is open to debate). > >And what are these arguments? > >CU >Christian
