Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:38:21 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 07:06:39PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> 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.

???

$ ls -la sound/oss/i810_audio.o sound/pci/intel8x0.o
-rw-rw-r--  1 bunk bunk 38056 2005-10-30 13:43 sound/oss/i810_audio.o
-rw-rw-r--  1 bunk bunk 34344 2005-10-30 13:44 sound/pci/intel8x0.o
$ 

The general decision for the OSS -> ALSA move was long ago.

If you have a real issue with the ALSA driver please submit a proper 
bug report to the ALSA bug tracking system and tell me the bug number.

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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