Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Rene Herman wrote:
> Anyways, I suspect at least Takashi Iwai would simply say "no" to 
> removing or deprecating the in kernel emulation anyway, although it's 
> not likely to grow features anymore.


Even if he fails to say "no" in such a case, many other people would 
stand up and do so :)  In Linux we generally do not want to remove 
binary userspace interfaces.  Breaking (i.e. changing) the in-kernel API 
is fine, but breaking the userspace ABI is quite another matter.

	Jeff


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