Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030227AbWADMlp (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:41:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030226AbWADMlp (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:41:45 -0500 Received: from gate.perex.cz ([85.132.177.35]:58274 "EHLO gate.perex.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030222AbWADMlo (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:41:44 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:41:41 +0100 (CET) From: Jaroslav Kysela X-X-Sender: perex@tm8103.perex-int.cz To: Andi Kleen Cc: Joern Nettingsmeier , Tomasz K?oczko , Adrian Bunk , Olivier Galibert , Alistair John Strachan , Tomasz Torcz , Jan Engelhardt , 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 In-Reply-To: <20060104123538.GE7222@wotan.suse.de> Message-ID: 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> <43BBBBFF.5020209@folkwang-hochschule.de> <20060104123538.GE7222@wotan.suse.de> 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: 839 Lines: 24 On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > > this is like whining about the oh so complex networking infrastructure > > and iptables and constantly reminiscing how simple it used to be to set > > up a modem on /dev/ttyS0. > > Can be nearly all CONFIGured out. With the removal of the sane > sound drivers that would be impossible though. The code reduction is possible also for the ALSA midlevel code. For example, removing the verbose /proc support might save some bytes and so on. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SUSE Labs - 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/