From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:46:19 +0200 Message-ID: <20050728154619.GM3528@stusta.de> References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de (mailout.stusta.mhn.de [141.84.69.5]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with SMTP id 1BFBE17A for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:46:21 +0200 (MEST) Content-Disposition: inline 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: Thorsten Knabe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:04:20PM +0200, Thorsten Knabe wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > >support the same hardware) for removal. > > Hello Adrian. Hi Thorsten, > I'm the maintainer of the OSS AD1816 sound driver. I'm aware of two > problems of the ALSA AD1816 driver, that do not show up with the OSS > driver: > - According to my own experience and user reports audio is choppy with > some VoIP Softphones like gnophone at least when used with the ALSA OSS > emulation layer, whereas the OSS driver is crystal clear. > - Users reported, that on some HP Kayak systems the on-board AD1816A > was not properly detected by the ALSA driver or was detected, but > there was no audio output. I'm not sure if the problem is still present in > the current ALSA driver, as I do not own such a system. > > Maybe the OSS driver should stay in the kernel, until those problems are > fixed in the ALSA driver. thanks for this note, I'll drop the AD1816 driver from my list. > Regards > Thorsten cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:46:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <20050728154619.GM3528@stusta.de> List-Id: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Thorsten Knabe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:04:20PM +0200, Thorsten Knabe wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > >support the same hardware) for removal. > > Hello Adrian. Hi Thorsten, > I'm the maintainer of the OSS AD1816 sound driver. I'm aware of two > problems of the ALSA AD1816 driver, that do not show up with the OSS > driver: > - According to my own experience and user reports audio is choppy with > some VoIP Softphones like gnophone at least when used with the ALSA OSS > emulation layer, whereas the OSS driver is crystal clear. > - Users reported, that on some HP Kayak systems the on-board AD1816A > was not properly detected by the ALSA driver or was detected, but > there was no audio output. I'm not sure if the problem is still present in > the current ALSA driver, as I do not own such a system. > > Maybe the OSS driver should stay in the kernel, until those problems are > fixed in the ALSA driver. thanks for this note, I'll drop the AD1816 driver from my list. > Regards > Thorsten cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261543AbVG1PvB (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:51:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261355AbVG1Pt3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:49:29 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:4358 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261543AbVG1PqX (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:46:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:46:19 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Thorsten Knabe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-ID: <20050728154619.GM3528@stusta.de> References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:04:20PM +0200, Thorsten Knabe wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > >support the same hardware) for removal. > > Hello Adrian. Hi Thorsten, > I'm the maintainer of the OSS AD1816 sound driver. I'm aware of two > problems of the ALSA AD1816 driver, that do not show up with the OSS > driver: > - According to my own experience and user reports audio is choppy with > some VoIP Softphones like gnophone at least when used with the ALSA OSS > emulation layer, whereas the OSS driver is crystal clear. > - Users reported, that on some HP Kayak systems the on-board AD1816A > was not properly detected by the ALSA driver or was detected, but > there was no audio output. I'm not sure if the problem is still present in > the current ALSA driver, as I do not own such a system. > > Maybe the OSS driver should stay in the kernel, until those problems are > fixed in the ALSA driver. thanks for this note, I'll drop the AD1816 driver from my list. > Regards > Thorsten cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed