From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
To: Jos Hulzink <jos@hulzink.net>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OSS: cleanup or throw away
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:22:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040322202220.GA13042@mulix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403221955.52767.jos@hulzink.net>
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 07:55:52PM +0100, Jos Hulzink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While fixing some "deprecated" issues in the OSS drivers, I wondered whether
> this makes sense, as entire OSS is marked deprecated. Will OSS make it until
> 2.7, or will it be dropped soon ? (In other words, should I take care of the
> OSS drivers or not bother about them)
In my not so humble opinion, throwing OSS away will be a big mistake,
as long as there are people willing to maintain it. Keep it there and
let the users (or distributions) choose what to use. I've seen
multiple bug reports of cards that work with OSS and don't work with
ALSA (and vice versa), so keeping both seems the proper thing to
do. Personally, I maintain one OSS driver, and fix bugs in others
occasionally.
Cheers,
Muli
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-22 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-22 18:55 OSS: cleanup or throw away Jos Hulzink
2004-03-22 20:22 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2004-03-22 21:32 ` Jos Hulzink
2004-03-22 21:53 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-03-22 21:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-03-22 22:03 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-03-22 22:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-03-22 23:17 ` Russell King
2004-03-23 8:23 ` Gábor Lénárt
2004-03-23 10:35 ` Jos Hulzink
2004-03-23 17:18 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-03-23 17:29 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-03-23 17:49 ` Jochen Hein
2004-03-23 19:39 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-03-24 21:00 ` Jos Hulzink
2004-03-22 21:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-03-22 22:27 ` Diego Calleja García
2004-03-22 22:54 ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2004-03-23 6:27 ` Jos Hulzink
2004-03-24 17:02 ` Jos Hulzink
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[not found] ` <1CGft-ry-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-03-23 17:16 ` Bill Davidsen
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