From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 21 17:11:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vilnya.demon.co.uk (vilnya.demon.co.uk [158.152.19.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA77237B401; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:11:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from darkstar (darkstar.rings [10.2.4.16]) by vilnya.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id B603CD9B8; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:11:12 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <001b01c0840f$b30ea070$1004020a@darkstar> From: "Cameron Grant" To: "Kris Kennaway" , "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: , References: <003401c0833c$39ac3f40$1004020a@darkstar> <20010121153904.B74751@citusc17.usc.edu> <200101220104.f0M142O04580@whizzo.transsys.com> Subject: Re: newpcm/kobj MFC Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:07:32 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. -cg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message