Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty?

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> This walks and qwacks like the alsa interface has been diddled, again.
> But since it KNOWS what hardware its running, in this case an audigy
> 2, not Value, so why was apparently working code broken and then
> commited to the kernel tree? 

It's a bug.  The interface was not changed intentionally.  ALSA policy
for at least a year has been "no incompatible changes".

Lee

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