From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olivier Galibert Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:40:18 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <20060103214018.GA41446@dspnet.fr.eu.org> List-Id: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <200601031629.21765.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103170316.GA12249@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <200601031716.13409.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103192449.GA26030@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20060103193736.GG3831@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20060103193736.GG3831@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Alistair John Strachan , Tomasz Torcz , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , 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 , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:37:36PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The udev breakages might not have been nice, but OSS/ALSA is a > completely different issue: > > OSS has been deprecated since ALSA was merged into the Linux kernel > _four years ago_. OSS _drivers_ yes, OSS _api_ no. > And I'm only talking about removing drivers _with ALSA drivers for the > same hardware available_. Sure, and I have no problem with that. OTOH you'll notice that this particular subthread was specifically about the OSS api, not the drivers. > For a general OSS<->ALSA discussion, you are five years too late. I couldn't predict 5 years ago that the ALSA API quality would be somewhat lacking. OG.