From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:43:33 -0500 Message-ID: <1137703413.32195.23.camel@mindpipe> References: <20060119174600.GT19398@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net (mustang.oldcity.dca.net [216.158.38.3]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with SMTP id 43A2F16F for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:43:36 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Krzysztof Halasa Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, perex@suse.cz List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 21:24 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Don't you all think a large part (if not most) of the > "ALSA-unsupported" > cards is no longed in any (Linux-related) use? I wouldn't be surprised > if they just don't exist anymore. Who is to write drivers for them and > - > more importantly - who can test them? Yes, it would require a collector of ancient sound hardware... do you know anyone like that? Even the NeoMagic 256 which is a Pentium II era device and was in widespread use we cannot find a tester for. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161402AbWASUng (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:43:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161405AbWASUng (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:43:36 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:58524 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161402AbWASUnf (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:43:35 -0500 Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach From: Lee Revell To: Krzysztof Halasa Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, perex@suse.cz In-Reply-To: References: <20060119174600.GT19398@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:43:33 -0500 Message-Id: <1137703413.32195.23.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 21:24 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Don't you all think a large part (if not most) of the > "ALSA-unsupported" > cards is no longed in any (Linux-related) use? I wouldn't be surprised > if they just don't exist anymore. Who is to write drivers for them and > - > more importantly - who can test them? Yes, it would require a collector of ancient sound hardware... do you know anyone like that? Even the NeoMagic 256 which is a Pentium II era device and was in widespread use we cannot find a tester for. Lee