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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Subject: Re: newpcm/kobj MFC 
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> > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:53:45PM -0000, Cameron Grant wrote:
> > > > this is a followup to my proposal some weeks ago which recieved no
> relevant
> > > > commentary.
> > > I'm also concerned about breaking binary compatibility. I understand
> > > your reasons for wanting this, but we really shouldn't be breaking
> > > binary compatibility in -stable. If we keep doing this then no third
> > > party vendor is going to want to support drivers that they have to
> > > update every few months.
> > It would be useful perhaps to gauge the actual impact of this
> > incompatability (how many people are using 3rd party sound driver?)
> > before making a decision.
> 
> to the best of my knowledge, there exist 5 drivers not in the tree now, all
> of which have kobjified versions available and 4 of which will be entering
> the tree soon.  i know of no commercial newpcm drivers.

Well, there you go.  Is changing an unused API an incompatability?

louie


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