Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

Olivier Galibert
2006-01-03T21:40:18Z

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.