From: "Gérard Roudier" <groudier@free.fr>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, <ac9410@bellsouth.net>,
<alan@clueserver.org>, <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.4 sound module problem
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:52:55 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020212194558.H1561-100000@gerard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020213.013644.118972487.davem@redhat.com>
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:26:32 +0000 (GMT)
>
> There are PCI drivers using the old sound code. Whether it matters is a
> more complicated question as these devices use ISA DMA emulation or their
> own pseudo DMA functionality.
>
> The sound layer PCI DMA stuff like a nice project for some kernel
> janitors :-))
Not worth, IMO.
Machines that give us fun support the legacy virt_to_bus() semantic.
Those that require the PCI DMA abstraction are so boring than adding sound
will probably not improve user pleasure significantly.
:-)) (this smiley is just to prevent from too much flaming ;-)
Gérard.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-13 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-13 3:51 Albert Cranford
2002-02-13 3:10 ` Alan
2002-02-13 4:22 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-13 9:26 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-13 9:36 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12 18:52 ` Gérard Roudier [this message]
2002-02-13 10:24 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-13 18:59 ` Alan
2002-02-13 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] <mailman.1013591941.29105.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-02-13 17:21 ` Pete Zaitcev
[not found] <fa.f4gi5iv.1ikenrc@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.fo94urv.167g1q5@ifi.uio.no>
2002-02-13 5:03 ` John Weber
2002-02-13 5:18 ` Alan
2002-02-13 9:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-13 7:46 ` Miles Lane
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2002-02-13 2:22 Alan
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