Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:51:03 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: john@jwlab.feith.com (John Wehle) Cc: mark@greenpeace.grondar.za, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: guspnp20 Sound Driver Patches for Ensoniq Soundscape Message-ID: <199710122051.NAA05972@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Oct 1997 16:28:28 EDT." <199710122028.QAA19529@jwlab.FEITH.COM>
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Let me make this issue very clear. The sound driver in 2.2 and 3.0 is deprecated. At this time it is not desired to support the sound driver on 2.2 and 3.0 nor is it appreciated in lieu of all the effort that is going into Luigi's sound driver. Our current strategy is to backup up Luigi's sound driver project. Secondly, if you must have voxware type style sound driver functionality the patches should be against the gus pnp series of the sound driver. I do not wish to check the guspnp driver for fear of diverting resources from Luigi's sound driver. The gus pnp at this is just an interim solution for those who need the voxware type functionality. Luigi's sound driver is checked in to 3.0-current and he has patches for 2.2. If you do decide to check in the changes to 2.2 or 3.0 sound driver you run the risk of losing the patches. I don't have time for the guspnp driver , 2.2's sound driver and 3.0's sound driver. Amancio >From The Desk Of John Wehle : > I'm getting a little confused. I understand the desire for > something that is easy to support. What I do not understand > is that I've supplied a patch against what is * currently * > in FreeBSD 3.0 which allows the Ensoniq Soundscape to function. > Without this patch the Ensoniq Soundscape driver is considered > to be * busted * (and there is a comment in LINT to this affect). > What is the cost of applying my original patch to the current > source tree? The changes are all obviously safe with the possible > exception of the changes to sscape.c and even there how much > worse could I be making it since it's currently listed as broken? > > Note that I consider the second patch for sound/ad1848.c as > a separate issue. I understand that it is currently functional > and that any change is probably considered risky. > > -- John > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Feith Systems | Voice: 1-215-646-8000 | Email: john@feith.com | > | John Wehle | Fax: 1-215-540-5495 | | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
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