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To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Just ignore Michael's posting -- it says nothing .


Anyone with a little intellingence can discern from my posting that 
I am *very* upset with isa_dmastatus.


	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Luigi Rizzo :
> > Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying:
> > > 
> > > Next release of the sound driver will not use isa_dmastatus from isa.c
> > > rather I will duplicate the functionality in the sound driver.
> > 
> > Am I the only person that thinks that this is unbelievably stupid?
> > 
> > All of a sudden, the sound drivers are the only kernel subsystem that
> > need PnP support, and now ISA DMA support too?  Please spare a few
> > seconds thought for the integrity of the system as a whole, rather
> > than as a vehicle for your pet projects...
> 
> I think amancio has to fight with backward compatibility, that's
> why he wants to ship a standalone driver (guspnpXX.tgz) with all the
> pieces he needs. BUt of course, in the long term, Mike is right.
> 
> 	Cheers
> 	Luigi