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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of obsolete OSS drivers
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:39:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1136443154.24475.2.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060103114900.GA3831@stusta.de>

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 12:49 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>  sound/oss/nm256.h                          |  292 
>  sound/oss/nm256_audio.c                    | 1709 -----
>  sound/oss/nm256_coeff.h                    | 4697 ---------------- 

This driver must not be removed.  The ALSA driver is broken.

Here's why:

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:14 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: 
> Unfortunately, it's impossible to fix this without a test hardware.
> The condition is worst:  No datasheet, a picky chipset, a pure
> reverse-engineered driver code.
> 
> 
> Takashi
> 

See https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=328 for details.

Lee


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-05  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-03 11:49 [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of obsolete OSS drivers Adrian Bunk
2006-01-03 12:01 ` Michal Piotrowski
2006-01-03 12:46   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-03 13:08     ` Michal Piotrowski
2006-01-05  6:40     ` Lee Revell
2006-01-03 18:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-03 18:49 ` Grant Coady
2006-01-05  6:39 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-01-05  9:54   ` Adrian Bunk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-01 13:46 Adrian Bunk

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