Re: PATCH: Raw device IO for 2.1.131

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 16 Dec 1998 22:24:04 +0000 (GMT)

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> > But, apart from caldera shipping (erk!) streams, I'm not aware of a
> > distribution shipping a kernel with significant extra functionality.
>
> I think RH shipped with a rather modified sound system using modules and
> load-time configuration which at that time was not in the standard
> kernels.

Thats a pretty good example although in some ways different since they
shipped driver changes not API changes. It doesn't cause a big problem,
and the modular sound has been folded into 2.1.x so will be a standard
part of 2.2

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