linux-kernel - Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward compatibilty?

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Message-Id: <1155139999.26338.178.camel@mindpipe>
Date:	Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:13:18 -0400
From:	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...izon.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, alsa-user@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Sergei Steshenko <steshenko_sergei@...t.ru>
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] another in kernel alsa update that breaks backward
	compatibilty?

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> This walks and qwacks like the alsa interface has been diddled, again.
> But since it KNOWS what hardware its running, in this case an audigy
> 2, not Value, so why was apparently working code broken and then
> commited to the kernel tree? 

It's a bug.  The interface was not changed intentionally.  ALSA policy
for at least a year has been "no incompatible changes".

Lee

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