Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 10:16 +0200, Ville Herva wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 04:44:28PM -0500, you [Lee Revell] wrote:
> > 
> > No it's a sign that the Revolution 5.1 is not well supported yet.  It
> > was not supported at all until a few weeks ago.
> 
> Ok, I see. (It was just that the revo51 changelog entry revo51 was not
> exactly verbose wrt. what's supported.)
> 
> You won't need the bug report just yet, then? 
> 
> I'll keep retesting the new releases.

Sure, we'd like the bug report.  I just wanted to point out that many
people who tell everyone that "ALSA sucks" like you and JWZ, have really
just made the mistake of buying bleeding edge barely-supported hardware.

If vendors gave us more docs so that reverse engineering drivers was not
the norm, the situation would improve greatly.

Lee

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