From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:09:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: List-Id: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <42E6645B.30206@zabbo.net> <20050726233837.459A.3.NOFFLE@islands.iskon.hr> In-Reply-To: <20050726233837.459A.3.NOFFLE@islands.iskon.hr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Zoran Dzelajlija Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org At Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:38:37 +0200, Zoran Dzelajlija wrote: > > Zach Brown wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > > > support the same hardware) for removal. > > > > I've Cc'ed the people listed in MAINTAINERS as being responsible for one > > > or more of these drivers, and I've also Cc'ed the ALSA people. > > > I haven't touched the maestro drivers in so long (for near-total lack of > > docs, etc.) that I can't be considered authoritative for approving it's > > removal. If people are relying on it I certainly don't know who they > > are. In better news, Takashi should now have the pile of maestro > > hardware that I used in the first pass to help him maintain the ALSA > > driver.. > > The OSS maestro driver works better on my old Armada E500 laptop. I tried > ALSA after switching to 2.6, but the computer hung with 2.6.8.1 or 2.6.10 if > I touched the volume buttons. With OSS they just work. The four separate > dsp devices also look kind of more useful. The bug around h/w volume control should have been fixed in the recent version of ALSA drivers. Hopefully everything will get merged into 2.6.13... Takashi