From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:35:38 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <20060104123538.GE7222@wotan.suse.de> 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> <43BBBBFF.5020209@folkwang-hochschule.de> In-Reply-To: <43BBBBFF.5020209@folkwang-hochschule.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Joern Nettingsmeier Cc: Tomasz K?oczko , Adrian Bunk , Olivier Galibert , 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 > desktop stuff and "you have mail" beeps are a fscking corner case. Your "fscking corner case" is just all what 90+% of all users need sound for. > > this is like whining about the oh so complex networking infrastructure > and iptables and constantly reminiscing how simple it used to be to set > up a modem on /dev/ttyS0. Can be nearly all CONFIGured out. With the removal of the sane sound drivers that would be impossible though. -Andi