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Subject: Re: newpcm/kobj MFC
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"Louis A. Mamakos" wrote:
> 
> > 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?

Yes, it is... :-(

It impacts reputation. OTOH, that has yet to prove a big problem for
Linux, for instance. :-)

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