Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal | Date | Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:34:54 +0000 |
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On Tuesday 03 January 2006 14:33, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Tuesday 03 January 2006 13:58, David Lang wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > > >> Even if Adrian's not trying to make this point (he's just removing > > >> duplicate drivers, and opting for the newer ones), we accepted ALSA > > >> into the kernel. It's probably about time we let OSS die properly, for > > >> sanity purposes. > > > > > > Avoiding bloat is more important. > > > > given that the ALSA drivers are not going to be removed, isn't it bloat > > to have two drivers for the same card? > > Normally this isn't too big a deal in Linux; eventually one gets removed, > but not until it is substantially inferior than the other (or broken, or > not compiling, or unmaintained..). > > > yes, an individual compiled kernel may be slightly smaller by continueing > > to support the OSS driver, but the source (and the maintinance) are > > significantly worse by haveing two drivers instead of just one. > > If there are two separate maintainers it's probably not a lot worse. I > think the argument pretty much has to remain "ALSA drivers are technically > superior, OSS drivers have unfixable limitations", and that should be a > good enough reason to see them removed. > > Perhaps Andi's concerns about ALSA bloat could also be concerned. ^^^ addressed
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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