Messages in this thread | | | From | Jos Hulzink <> | Subject | Re: OSS: cleanup or throw away | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:32:20 +0100 |
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On Monday 22 March 2004 21:22, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > In my not so humble opinion, throwing OSS away will be a big mistake, > as long as there are people willing to maintain it. Keep it there and > let the users (or distributions) choose what to use. I've seen > multiple bug reports of cards that work with OSS and don't work with > ALSA (and vice versa), so keeping both seems the proper thing to > do. Personally, I maintain one OSS driver, and fix bugs in others > occasionally.
Looking at the amount of warnings in the OSS drivers (depricated check_region), the OSS drivers seem -with all respect for your hard work- not so well maintained anymore. I'm willing to fix them all, but not if entire OSS is ditched away Real Soon Now (tm).
Best regards,
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