Re: [RFC] Pushing device/driver binding decisions to userspace

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 08:58 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Now; there is a second issue. If the choice for one or the other is
> consistent, we should consider fixing the kernel drivers to just not
> advertise the b0rked one.. (this assumes that both drivers are in the
> kernel and both are open source) 

Unfortunately it becomes political quickly.  For example the old OSS
i810_audio driver is still in the kernel even though the ALSA driver
supports more hardware and provides more functionality because some
people consider the ALSA driver bloated.

Lee

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