Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932141AbVJ3SGm (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:06:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932149AbVJ3SGm (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:06:42 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:21987 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932141AbVJ3SGl (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:06:41 -0500 To: Adrian Bunk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal References: <20051030105118.GW4180@stusta.de> From: Andi Kleen Date: 30 Oct 2005 19:06:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20051030105118.GW4180@stusta.de> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 671 Lines: 12 Adrian Bunk writes: > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the > same hardware) for removal. > > Scheduling the via82cxxx driver for removal was ACK'ed by Jeff Garzik. I would prefer if the ICH driver be kept. It works just fine on near all my systems and has a much smaller binary size than the ALSA variant. Moving to ALSA would bloat the kernels considerably. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/