Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964949AbWACVkX (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:40:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964951AbWACVkW (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:40:22 -0500 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([213.186.44.138]:14346 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964948AbWACVkV (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:40:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:40:18 +0100 From: Olivier Galibert To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Alistair John Strachan , Tomasz Torcz , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, kyle@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-ID: <20060103214018.GA41446@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , Adrian Bunk , Alistair John Strachan , Tomasz Torcz , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, kyle@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <200601031629.21765.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103170316.GA12249@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <200601031716.13409.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103192449.GA26030@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20060103193736.GG3831@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060103193736.GG3831@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 939 Lines: 29 On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:37:36PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The udev breakages might not have been nice, but OSS/ALSA is a > completely different issue: > > OSS has been deprecated since ALSA was merged into the Linux kernel > _four years ago_. OSS _drivers_ yes, OSS _api_ no. > And I'm only talking about removing drivers _with ALSA drivers for the > same hardware available_. Sure, and I have no problem with that. OTOH you'll notice that this particular subthread was specifically about the OSS api, not the drivers. > For a general OSS<->ALSA discussion, you are five years too late. I couldn't predict 5 years ago that the ALSA API quality would be somewhat lacking. OG. - 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/