On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:21:24PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > I just realised that, with this thread, i re-opened the old and painful > flamewar "why the Linux drivers are so tightly attached to the kernel, > so that if i upgrade the kernel i have to upgrade all 3rd party drivers, > or vice-versa". Tannenbaum scoffing at Torvalds for not using a > microkernel, and all that... It's not just a driver. ALSA is an entire *architecture* for moving sound into and out of the system. Try replacing the entire sound architecture of any other OS.... > Ah well, i was merely hoping i could avoid wasting the time required to > recompile the kernel when a new ALSA version comes out. Well, if you switch to FC2 when it comes out, then updating kernels should be easy since there won't be any/many Fedora-specific patches to miss in the standard kernel.
