Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 07-Mar-05, 06:23 (CST), Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote: 
> Le lundi 07 mars 2005 ? 00:03 +0100, Christoph Hellwig a ?crit :
> > It's not a depency in any way.  I play sound just fine with OSS drivers
> > without the ALSA mess getting in my way anywhere.
> 
> Without alsa-base installed, hotplug and discover will load both
> modules, resulting in various disasters depending on the hardware. It's
> not because things work with your setup that they are suitable for a
> stable Debian release.

Then that's a bug in hotplug and/or discover, not the kernel.

Steve

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