[alsa-devel] ALSA driver for Native Instruments sound hardware

Rene Herman rene.herman at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 21:52:25 CEST 2007


On 03/26/2007 07:27 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> At Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:21:21 +0200,
> Rene Herman wrote:

>> I've been wondering about that. Would it be good to say "version 1.0.15 
>> will be the last version of alsa to support kernels < 2.6"? (1.0.15, or 
>> 1.0.16, or ...). Older kernels are likely still used a lot in embedded 
>> but do they need other sound hardware then what's already present in 
>> alsa currently? If they do, would telling to them to "upgrade already" 
>> be unacceptable? 2.6 is over 3 years old...
> 
> In alsa-driver tree, there is a flag (embedded in utils/mod-deps.c)
> indicating 2.6-only drivers, so it's no big deal.

I see. Well, you are the one doing the work so if you don't think it 
matters, it doesn't :)

Rene.



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