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From: Greg KH <greg@×××××.com>
To: Jeremy Huddleston <eradicator@g.o>
Cc: Javier Marcet <javier@××××××.info>, Xavier Neys <neysx@g.o>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ALSA and kernel 2.6.1-gentoo-r1 and /etc/init.d/alsasound
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:28:57
Message-Id: 20040223180647.GA21349@kroah.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ALSA and kernel 2.6.1-gentoo-r1 and /etc/init.d/alsasound by Jeremy Huddleston
1 On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:02:39AM -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 05:11, Javier Marcet wrote:
3 > > All right, in 2.6.1 or so you had to enable it static. But anyway, what
4 > > for me makes no sense at all is emerging alsa-driver with a 2.6.x kernel.
5 > > What's the need?
6 > >
7 >
8 > The version that is in the kernel is not necessarily the latest
9 > version. In fact, the 2.6.2 kernel still had 0.9.8.
10
11 But the in-kernel one has features that the out of kernel one does not
12 (sysfs support being one, which is needed for udev...)
13
14 thanks,
15
16 greg k-h
17
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