Re: [Alsa-user] debuggability of ALSA
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From: Sergei S. <ste...@li...> - 2005-10-24 20:18:04
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Suppose I bought Mandriva with support, and suppose I've found an ALSA-related problem and filed a bug with Mandriva. Will Mandriva by itself fix the problem ? Will it pay ALSA developers for fixing it ? ... Think about from a different point of view. If the freshly backed binary drivers from ALSA developers are distributed, the developers won't have to deal "it worked with my older distribution yesterday, but doesn't work with my newer distribution today" help requests - there will be no kernel API involved to screw the things up. So, I hope, in the end ALSA developers will spend less time on support and have more fun doing the development. On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:07:43 +0200 Peter Zubaj <pz...@po...> wrote: > Hi, > > > 3) ALSA driver is distributed as binary memory image per CPU architecture, > > making it independent of Linux distribution (source, of course, is available). > > Too much work for too much problems, for too little gain. > > If someone wants support, than he should buy distribution with support. > Most of people here do this for fun in their free time for free. They do > this to fit their needs and they care about users only if this doesn't > cost too much of their time. > > Peter Zubaj > > |