Specifying the order of sound devices
Lee Revell
rlrevell at joe-job.com
Mon Apr 10 18:39:25 BST 2006
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:10 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:07:13PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:04 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > That would result in a functionality regression over Breezy.
> > >
> > Why a regression in functionality? As I understand it, the softmac
> > driver can do everything the fullmac one can.
>
> In theory. In practice, it's not as well-tested or bugfree. In fact,
> "Almost untested" would probably fit rather better. It's preferable to
> ndiswrapper, but that's pretty much as favourable as I can be about
> it right now. In a few months, it'll probably be less of a problem.
>
> (And we still need to fix the ata_piix/ahci problem, anyway)
It's also a performance regression, if Dapper makes my CPU do work that
the hardware used to do.
Lee
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