Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:54:43 +0000 | From | Martin Habets <> | Subject | Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach |
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It seems to me we can already get rid of sound/oss/dmasound now. I cannot find anything refering to it anymore, and the ALSA powermac driver is being maintained.
Martin
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:46:00PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > My proposal to remove OSS drivers where ALSA drivers for the same > hardware exists had two reasons: > > 1. remove obsolete and mostly unmaintained code > 2. get bugs in the ALSA drivers reported that weren't previously > reported due to the possible workaround of using the OSS drivers > > I'm slowly getting more and more reports for the second case. > > > The list below divides the OSS drivers into the following three > categories: > 1. ALSA drivers for the same hardware > 2. ALSA drivers for the same hardware with known problems > 3. no ALSA drivers for the same hardware > > > My proposed timeline is: > - shortly before 2.6.16 is released: > adjust OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER dependencies to match exactly the > drivers under 1. > - from the release of 2.6.16 till the release of 2.6.17: > approx. two months for users to report problems with the ALSA > drivers for the same hardware > - after the release of 2.6.17 (and before 2.6.18): > remove the subset of drivers marked at OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER without > known regressions in the ALSA drivers for the same hardware > > > To make a long story short: > > If you are using an OSS driver because the ALSA driver doesn't work > equally well on your hardware, send me an email with a bug number in the > ALSA bug tracking system now. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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