Re: [Qemu-devel] Removing old/unused audio backends

[Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>]

On 05/21/2015 02:49 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 05/21/2015 02:52 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> On Do, 2015-05-21 at 00:05 +0200, Kővágó Zoltán wrote:
>>
>>> Here are the drivers that could go in my opinion:
>>> esd: no longer maintained, last release in 2008, replaced by PulseAudio
>>> fmod: not sure about this one, but apparently it's some no longer 
>>> developed library that's also proprietary.
>>> sdl: is broken 
>>> (http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-05/msg02198.html), 
>>> and we have native drivers for almost all platforms
>>> winwave: DirectSound should be a superior choice on windows (even though 
>>> it's also deprecated)
>>
>> Looks all reasonable to me.
> 
> Slightly related, it's probably time to drop malc from the MAINTAINERS file
> too... I don't think he's posted to qemu-devel since 2012
> 

And his mail is bouncing (which I'm pretty sure has been the case doing for
years too)

- Cole