Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: OSS: cleanup or throw away | From | Luiz Fernando Capitulino <> | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:54:34 -0300 |
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Em Seg, 2004-03-22 às 19:27, Diego Calleja García escreveu: > El Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:57:09 +0100 Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> escribió: > > > OSS will stay in 2.6 (2.6 is a stable kernel series) but it will most > > likely be removed in 2.7. > > Personally, as an user, I'd like to have the OSS drivers which don't have > a ALSA equivalent for my old hardware. There're several > sound cards with both ALSA and OSS drivers where ALSA works > much better 99% of the time. Those could be safely removed > (even in the 2.6 timeframe, I'd argue) but I'd like to keep the ones > without an alsa equivalent for my old hardware (specially now that we > have a -tiny tree ;) however I can understand that if they don't > have a maintainer they'll get removed...
Also, I think is not good for the kernel to have code that does not compile and/or compile with several warnings.
So, if someone have time to work on it, is not bad.
-- Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br> <http://www.telecentros.sp.gov.br>
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