From: Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>
To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OSS: cleanup or throw away
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:32:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403222232.20994.josh@stack.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040322202220.GA13042@mulix.org>
On Monday 22 March 2004 21:22, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> 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.
Looking at the amount of warnings in the OSS drivers (depricated
check_region), the OSS drivers seem -with all respect for your hard work- not
so well maintained anymore. I'm willing to fix them all, but not if entire
OSS is ditched away Real Soon Now (tm).
Best regards,
Jos Hulzink
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-22 21:30 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
2004-03-22 21:32 ` Jos Hulzink [this message]
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] ` <1CFMG-8wf-61@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1CGft-ry-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-03-23 17:16 ` Bill Davidsen
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