Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422640AbWAMMYA (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:24:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422641AbWAMMYA (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:24:00 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:53001 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1422640AbWAMMX7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:23:59 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:23:58 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Muli Ben-Yehuda Cc: Lee Revell , Jon Mason , Jiri Slaby , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware Message-ID: <20060113122358.GH29663@stusta.de> References: <20060112175051.GA17539@us.ibm.com> <43C6ADDE.5060904@liberouter.org> <20060112200735.GD5399@granada.merseine.nu> <20060112214719.GE17539@us.ibm.com> <20060112220039.GX29663@stusta.de> <1137105731.2370.94.camel@mindpipe> <20060113113756.GL5399@granada.merseine.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060113113756.GL5399@granada.merseine.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1932 Lines: 51 On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:37:56PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:42:10PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 23:00 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > CYBER5050 is discussed in ALSA bug #1293 (tester wanted). > > > > OK I set that bug to FEEDBACK, but it's open 5 months now and no testers > > are forthcoming. I think if we don't find one as a result of this > > thread we can assume no one cares about this hardware anymore. > > > > I'm still not sure that just adding it to the ALSA driver and hoping it > > works is the best solution. Would we rather users see right away that > > their hardware isn't supported, or have the driver load and get no sound > > or hang the machine? > > ... or use the known working OSS driver? >... In my experience with scheduling OSS drivers for removal, users simply use the OSS drivers unless you tell them very explicitely that the OSS driver will go. It shouldn't be too hard to port the support to ALSA if someone with the hardware is willing to test patches. The goal is to get people still using OSS drivers where ALSA drivers support the same hardware to use the ALSA drivers - and if there were bugs in the ALSA drivers preventing them to switch to ALSA, to report them to the ALSA bug tracking system. This has the following advantages: - better ALSA drivers - get rid of some unmaintained code in the kernel > Cheers, > Muli cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/