Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932413AbWAFNkR (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:40:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932420AbWAFNkQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:40:16 -0500 Received: from host1.compusonic.fi ([195.238.198.242]:30568 "EHLO minor.compusonic.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932409AbWAFNkO (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:40:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:37:32 +0200 (EET) From: Hannu Savolainen X-X-Sender: hannu@zeus.compusonic.fi To: James Courtier-Dutton Cc: Marcin Dalecki , Jesper Juhl , Lee Revell , Jan Engelhardt , Takashi Iwai , Adrian Bunk , Tomasz Torcz , Olivier Galibert , Alistair John Strachan , Andi Kleen , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, 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: <43BE3E3D.7050506@superbug.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <0D76E9E1-7FB0-41FD-8FAC-E4B3C6E9C902@dalecki.de> <1136486021.31583.26.camel@mindpipe> <1136491503.847.0.camel@mindpipe> <7B34B941-46CC-478F-A870-43FE0D3143AB@dalecki.de> <1136493172.847.26.camel@mindpipe> <8D670C39-7B52-407C-8BDD-3478DB172641@dalecki.de> <9a8748490601051535s5e28fd81of6814088db7ccac@mail.gmail.com> <43BE3E3D.7050506@superbug.demon.co.uk> 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: 1116 Lines: 26 On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Even you admit that the OSS drivers in the kernel mainline are "really > obsolete", so you must agree with this thread that we should remove them. I completely agree. As I said I would like to see the old OSS code to be removed from the kernel soon. > Only if your binary blobs are released as GPL so that they can be included in > mainline can it really be any use to discuss them. We are planning to release OSS under some open source license (not GPL). However it will be released and built outside the Linux kernel source tree (mostly because the same code has to work with several other operating system). Best regards, Hannu ----- Hannu Savolainen (hannu@opensound.com) http://www.opensound.com (Open Sound System (OSS)) http://www.compusonic.fi (Finnish OSS pages) OH2GLH QTH: Karkkila, Finland LOC: KP20CM - 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/