On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <maurochehab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While you're there, the better is to also disable CONFIG_ALSA on Ubuntu, as the drivers > won't work anyway. Note: while building ALSA modules did fail in some versions for Ubuntu, it has been over a years since I've seen that problem. Blindly disabling ALSA for all Ubuntu users would be a huge regression for users. > As we don't want to have complains from users about "why driver foo is not compiling for me", > IMO, it should be printing a warning message saying that compilation of ALSA/FIREWIRE drivers with > that specific kernel version is not possible, due to the back packaging of kernel headers, > recommending to the user to get a vanilla upstream kernel, if he needs one of the disabled > drivers. I agree with this premise for firedtv, but see my comment above about ALSA. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
