Re: [2.6.22 patch] more scheduled OSS driver removal

Richard Knutsson
2007-03-26T07:37:45Z

Lee Revell wrote:
> On 3/25/07, Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> 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).
>
> He's referring to EMU DSP manager. (emudspmgr I think it's called).
> The ALSA equivalent is ld10k1. It might not be as mature as the OSS
> equivalent, but are we really going to keep obsolete drivers in the
> kernel just because the userspace tools for the old driver are more
> mature?
Good! I forward that info to him.
BTW, I did not mean to suggest we keep the OSS instead of ALSA. Just
voiced if it is _ready_ to be replaced. But since there is no regression
report filed (believed he already made one) I will pipe down :)
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I guess he's referring to the well known "Master volume only controls
> front output" problem. This really does need to be resolved, as many
> other ALSA drivers are effected.
<rant_mode=on>
Isn't this quite a basic feature?! Is there somewhere to monitor the
progress on this?
<rant_mode=off>

Thanks for your help!
Richard Knutsson