From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:54:48 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version Message-Id: <1123610089.8210.7.camel@mindpipe> List-Id: References: <20050729153226.GE3563@stusta.de> <1123607633.5601.7.camel@mindpipe> <20050809174906.GA4006@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20050809174906.GA4006@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Adrian Bunk Cc: gregkh@suse.de, NAGANO Daisuke , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, 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 , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:49 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I'd deprecate them without moving them. > OK, I think that will still be slightly confusing becuase it comes before Sound in the kernel config, but maybe the deprecated part will make people think twice. I think we should at least label these clearly as part of OSS. Users at least seem to know that mixing OSS and ALSA modules is bad. > I'll send a patch unless someone tells that any functionality of these > drivers is lacking in ALSA. OK. I'm almost positive there is no functionality missing, there have not been any reports of people needing to use the OSS driver on any of the ALSA lists. Lee