From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:11:03 +0000 Message-ID: <1137708663.8471.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060119174600.GT19398@stusta.de> <1137694944.32195.1.camel@mindpipe> <20060119182859.GW19398@stusta.de> <1137696885.32195.12.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gate.perex.cz (gate.perex.cz [85.132.177.35]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id 45929141 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:11:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (unknown [81.2.110.250]) by gate.perex.cz (Perex's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id D0B4399212 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:11:08 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <1137696885.32195.12.camel@mindpipe> 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: Lee Revell Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, perex@suse.cz List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 13:54 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > /* > * Initialisation code for Cyrix/NatSemi VSA1 softaudio > * > * (C) Copyright 2003 Red Hat Inc > * > > Why was a new OSS driver written and accepted at such a late date, when > OSS was already deprecated? Because 1. I wanted the support 2. It was needed for my employers systems which like everyone else were still OSS at the time Welcome to the *real world* Alan ------------------------------------------------------- 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