Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:32:15 +0200 | From | Muli Ben-Yehuda <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware |
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:23:58PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> In my experience with scheduling OSS drivers for removal, users simply > use the OSS drivers unless you tell them very explicitely that the OSS > driver will go.
If the OSS drivers satisfy them, what's wrong with it?
> It shouldn't be too hard to port the support to ALSA if someone with the > hardware is willing to test patches.
Unfortunately, I have a different trident variant (the 5451).
> The goal is to get people still using OSS drivers where ALSA drivers > support the same hardware to use the ALSA drivers - and if there were > bugs in the ALSA drivers preventing them to switch to ALSA, to report > them to the ALSA bug tracking system. > > This has the following advantages: > - better ALSA drivers
This one is fine.
> - get rid of some unmaintained code in the kernel
This one is irrelevant for trident - I maintain it.
Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/
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