On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Is this actually correct? I thought that the status of this device had been > > moved to permanently broken due to the 2.6 kernel's overly strict view of > > what a valid USB device. Is not true?
I do not think I would trust M-Audio as to the state of Linux, especially as they seem particularly obnoxious where Linux is concerned. > > The kernel is not overly strict, the Quattro violates the USB > specification, so it doesn't work anymore on 2.6, which relies on the > spec. The M-Audio website isn't correct anymore, they should fix it or > maybe get in contact with the linux-usb developers. Uh, well, that is subject to interpretation. This seems like a police man stopping you and saying your were going 2mph over the speed limit. Yes, you broke the law, which says the speed limit is the limit. But I think almost anyone would get pretty upset if a policeman did that. The question is whether or not the usb software writers can predict some of the stupidities of manufacturers and write the software so as to work even thought the manufacturer messes up. As I understand this this a "mislabeling" problem, one if taken literally could result in overwriting the ends of an array. There would seem to be two reactions-- kill anything that does that, or make the array larger. Yes, the latter "wastes" memory, but is the memory wasted really that precious a resource? I may misunderstand the problem entirely, such that it is impossible to write a USB bus driver which could compensate for maudio or other manufacturer's stupididty. But an overstrict interpretation of the rules seems an inappropriate reaction of writers (especially since Linux USB itself seems to have some peculiarities of its own). > > ciao > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
