Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly differentapproach

From: Lee Revell
Date: Fri Jan 20 2006 - 19:59:43 EST


On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 01:13 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 17:51 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > The status is we need someone who has the hardware who can add printk's
> > to the driver to identify what triggers the hang. It should not be
> > hard, the OSS driver reportedly works.
> >
> > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=328
> >
> > The bug has been in FEEDBACK state for a long time.
>
> 99.9% of users don't ever look in ALSA bugzilla.
>
> A dig shows
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157371
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171221
>

I know, we don't expect users to look in it. But you can't expect a
handful of developers, only two of whom are paid to work on ALSA, to
track every distro's bugzilla either. It's hard enough to keep up with
the ALSA bug tracker.

The best solution is for the distros to make sure to refer users with
ALSA problems to the ALSA bug tracker, and for the maintainers of the
distro bugzillas to properly forward bugs upstream, like Debian does.

Lee



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