From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:04:52 +0100 (BST) Received: from h155.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:53953 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20021830AbXGFPEr (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 16:04:47 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.248] (unknown [10.150.0.9]) by imap.sh.mvista.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DF73EC9; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <468E5A63.3050706@ru.mvista.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:06:11 +0400 From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: MontaVista Software Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Au1550 OSS sound driver References: <20070706144043.GA23569@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: <20070706144043.GA23569@linux-mips.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 15638 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Hello. Ralf Baechle wrote: > Does anybody have convincing arguments why I should *NOT* delete this > driver? It's sitting since ages in the lmo repositories, as an OSS > driver isn't in the shape to be merged upstream, so doesn't receive > testing by the autobuilders, I don't think I've seen any testers. Erm, I'm afraid you have created some confusion by this mail: actually you meant sound/oss/au1550_i2s.c (maintained only in l-m tree), and not sound/oss/au1550_ac97.c (which is in mainline). > Volunters to rewrite this for ALSA? Both drivers still should be rewritten. > Ralf WBR, Sergei