From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:13:51 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version Message-Id: <1123607633.5601.7.camel@mindpipe> List-Id: References: <20050729153226.GE3563@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20050729153226.GE3563@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, kyle@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zaitcev@yahoo.com, Christoph Eckert On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > support the same hardware) for removal. > > Scheduling the via82cxxx driver for removal was ACK'ed by Jeff Garzik. > Someone on linux-audio-user just pointed out that the OSS USB audio and midi modules were never deprecated, much less scheduled to be removed. Maybe the best way to deprecate them is to move them to Sound -> OSS, that's where they belong anyway. Lee On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 18:42 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > Recompile the kernel with USB audio support. > > Please ensure that you *disable* => Devioce drivers => USB => > USB audio and USB Midi. > > Both are OSS modules and caused a lot of trouble here when > used in conjunction with the ALSA module > > => Sound => ALSA => USB devices => USB Audio/MIDI driver > > > BTW: OSS is marked as deprecated, but not the two OSS modules > mentioned above. Couldn't this get set or at least some info > that these modules belong to OSS?