On 20-08-08 00:08, John L. Utz III wrote: >> Never omitting any opportunity to complain about missing vendor >> cooperation, but what do they do once people actually do publish >> ample specs? - yeah, you got that right: NOTHING!! > > Congratulations on your patch, but i dont think this comment was > particularly helpful. Oh, come one. He had his tongue quite firmly and definitely in cheek... > Had the spec been released concurrent with the release of the chip, > who knows what would have happened? > > The ALS4k is not currently manufactured, so there is not a good > reason to invest development resources in supporting it. > > Time is better spent supporting new chips so that new distro releases > can support new computers so that computer vendors and end users will > feel less put out by having linux as the default OS for their brand > new computer! One of the main reasons for wanting specs over vendor supplied drivers in fact is to be able to support _old_ hardware -- hardware that the manfacturer feels no need to support anymore, but the users still want to use. As such, I believe the above is definitely off the mark. But anyways, he was definitely being "joke-ish". You took it way too seriously. Rene. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
