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