Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932276AbVJaHJz (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:09:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932277AbVJaHJz (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:09:55 -0500 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:2466 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932276AbVJaHJy (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:09:54 -0500 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal From: Lee Revell To: Andi Kleen Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: References: <20051030105118.GW4180@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:06:31 -0500 Message-Id: <1130742392.32101.16.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 942 Lines: 24 On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 19:06 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. > The emu10k1 ALSA driver is considerably smaller than the OSS driver and has more features, like most ALSA drivers. If the ICH driver is really smaller I suspect it's missing some functionality. Lee - 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/