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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of obsolete OSS drivers
FromLee Revell <>
DateThu, 05 Jan 2006 01:39:14 -0500
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 12:49 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>  sound/oss/nm256.h                          |  292 
>  sound/oss/nm256_audio.c                    | 1709 -----
>  sound/oss/nm256_coeff.h                    | 4697 ---------------- 

This driver must not be removed.  The ALSA driver is broken.

Here's why:

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:14 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: 
> Unfortunately, it's impossible to fix this without a test hardware.
> The condition is worst:  No datasheet, a picky chipset, a pure
> reverse-engineered driver code.
> 
> 
> Takashi
> 

See https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=328 for details.

Lee

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