From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964894AbVHIRPc (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:15:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964895AbVHIRPc (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:15:32 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:29110 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964894AbVHIRPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:15:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version 2) From: Lee Revell To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 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 , zaitcev@yahoo.com, Christoph Eckert In-Reply-To: <20050729153226.GE3563@stusta.de> References: <20050729153226.GE3563@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:13:51 -0400 Message-Id: <1123607633.5601.7.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.3.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Lee On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 18:42 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > Recompile the kernel with USB audio support. > > Please ensure that you *disable* => Devioce drivers => USB => > USB audio and USB Midi. > > Both are OSS modules and caused a lot of trouble here when > used in conjunction with the ALSA module > > => Sound => ALSA => USB devices => USB Audio/MIDI driver > > > BTW: OSS is marked as deprecated, but not the two OSS modules > mentioned above. Couldn't this get set or at least some info > that these modules belong to OSS?