[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#483918: Bug#483918: Bug#483918: alsa-driver - binary only code

Jordi Mallach jordi at debian.org
Wed Jun 25 07:14:09 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:35:28PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Wrt to alsa-source, what's the point of the package anyway? This
> might've been useful in Linux 2.4 days, but nowadays all drivers
> should be present in the stock kernel package?

Many people get their newer hardware working thanks to updating their
drivers to the latest ALSA release, while the linux-image drivers remain
silent. It is a package we need to keep.

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