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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.22 patch] the scheduled removal of OBSOLETE_OSS options
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:55:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070306175504.GW3441@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45EDA8EE.1060308@tmr.com>

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:46:22PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >This patch contains the scheduled removal of the OBSOLETE_OSS options 
> >for 2.6.22.
> >
> If these are drivers for which there are thought to be useful ALSA 
> drivers, would it be reasonable to leave a stub for a help file naming 
> the driver which claims to support the hardware?
> 
> I'm not objection to the removal of the drivers, just noting that 
> identifying the new drivers can be made easier.

People compiling their own kernels aren't completely dumb - if you know 
about people having problems finding the right ALSA driver for their 
hardware, please name the concrete problems so that we can improve the 
description and/or help text of these ALSA options.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-06 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-05  1:49 [2.6.22 patch] the scheduled removal of OBSOLETE_OSS options Adrian Bunk
2007-03-06 17:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-03-06 17:55   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-03-06 23:03     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-03-07  6:21     ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-07 19:56       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-03-07 20:48         ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-07 20:01       ` Lee Revell

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