Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 23:23:29 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Cc: Jos Hulzink <jos@hulzink.net>,
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Subject: Re: OSS: cleanup or throw away
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On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:03:27AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:59:21PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:22:21PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > >...
> > > 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
> > >...
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be better to get the ALSA drivers working in such cases?
> 
> It would; but until they do, ditching OSS is a regression. 
>...

Clearly.

Ditching OSS at the beginning of 2.7 will give several years to identify 
and fix such regressions.

> Cheers, 
> Muli 

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

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