From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:49:06 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version 2) Message-Id: <20050809174906.GA4006@stusta.de> List-Id: References: <20050729153226.GE3563@stusta.de> <1123607633.5601.7.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1123607633.5601.7.camel@mindpipe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Lee Revell , gregkh@suse.de, NAGANO Daisuke , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch Cc: 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, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:13:51PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > 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. I'd deprecate them without moving them. I'll send a patch unless someone tells that any functionality of these drivers is lacking in ALSA. > Lee 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