[LAU] mute laptop speakers with Intel HDA

Arnold Krille arnold at arnoldarts.de
Mon Aug 6 17:03:16 EDT 2007


Am Montag, 6. August 2007 schrieb Fons Adriaensen:
> I assume most drivers are using the same interfaces to the
> kernel, and the same services, and that these are relatively
> stable.
> But I could be completely wrong...

Well, the kernel devs seem to change some interfaces rather often in binary 
incompatible ways. And sometimes even on purpose (to drive away blob-drivers 
like nvidia)...

So it can be that one of these changes introduced a bug hard to find and 
affecting only very few drivers. And as the developers will probably all have 
the lastest kernels, they don't want to wast time by debugging a problem 
fixed two kernel versions ago just because the user has 2.6.4 installed and 
doesn't use a half decent distro...

I can understand that policy.

Arnold
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