Re: [2.6.22 patch] more scheduled OSS driver removal

Richard Knutsson
2007-03-26T07:23:26Z

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:26:19AM +0200, Richard Knutsson wrote:
>
>> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>
>>> This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that:
>>> - have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions and
>>> - whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.20.
>>>
>>>
>> Sorry for this late respond
>>
>> Is sound/oss/emu10k1/ really ready to be replaced? According to a friend
>> of mine, who got the hardware, the ALSA still lacks feature provided by
>> the OSS-driver. He mentioned some sort of programmable memory (forgot
>> the name for that) with whom you can run small programs to manipulate
>> the sounds (adding echo and such). Also, he got problems with getting
>> more accurate control of the volume (guess this is more a userland issue).
>> He seems to have done his homework but only got to pages where other
>> peoples had the same problem.
>>

> Current number of regressions in the ALSA emu10k1 driver people gave me
> numbers of open ALSA bugs for:
> 0
>
Oh ok, I will let him know that. Thanks

Richard Knutsson