Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:07:32 -0000 From: "Cameron Grant" <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: newpcm/kobj MFC Message-ID: <001b01c0840f$b30ea070$1004020a@darkstar> References: <003401c0833c$39ac3f40$1004020a@darkstar> <20010121153904.B74751@citusc17.usc.edu> <200101220104.f0M142O04580@whizzo.transsys.com>
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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.
-cg
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