Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:39:01 -0500 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: "Cameron Grant" <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk> Cc: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newpcm/kobj MFC Message-ID: <200101220139.f0M1d1O05133@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:07:32 GMT." <001b01c0840f$b30ea070$1004020a@darkstar> References: <003401c0833c$39ac3f40$1004020a@darkstar> <20010121153904.B74751@citusc17.usc.edu> <200101220104.f0M142O04580@whizzo.transsys.com> <001b01c0840f$b30ea070$1004020a@darkstar>
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> > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:53:45PM -0000, Cameron Grant wrote: > > > > this is a followup to my proposal some weeks ago which recieved no > relevant > > > > commentary. > > > I'm also concerned about breaking binary compatibility. I understand > > > your reasons for wanting this, but we really shouldn't be breaking > > > binary compatibility in -stable. If we keep doing this then no third > > > party vendor is going to want to support drivers that they have to > > > update every few months. > > It would be useful perhaps to gauge the actual impact of this > > incompatability (how many people are using 3rd party sound driver?) > > before making a decision. > > 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? louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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