Re: No sound from SB live!

[David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Lee Revell wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 23:56 +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > Thanks for this info Lee, and understand I don't hold anybody
> > specifically in
> > the alsa team responsible but *deep breath*:
> >
> > Please let everybody know about incompatible changes to alsa-lib know
> > about it
> > prior to making the change mandatory.
>
> I thought it was already common knowledge that alsa-lib should be
> upgraded when upgrading the kernel.

it's not (at least among general Linux users, it probably is among alsa 
developers).

Especially after the comments that Linus made a few months ago about how 
important it is to not break userspace interfaces.

> Each ALSA driver has both a userspace and a kernel component so alsa-lib
> has to be upgraded to get new drivers anyway.

but people frequently upgrade kernels on existing machines so they aren't 
after new drivers.

if alsalib really needs to be upgraded in lockstep with the kernel then it 
should be included with the kernel (and it still leaves people in trouble 
when they need to shift back and forth between two different kernels, how 
do you select the alsalib version to use on boot to make it match the 
kernel you booted from?)

David Lang

> Lee
>
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