Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422662AbWASWNb (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:13:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422664AbWASWNb (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:13:31 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:44721 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422662AbWASWNU (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:13:20 -0500 Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach From: Alan Cox To: Lee Revell Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, perex@suse.cz In-Reply-To: <1137696885.32195.12.camel@mindpipe> References: <20060119174600.GT19398@stusta.de> <1137694944.32195.1.camel@mindpipe> <20060119182859.GW19398@stusta.de> <1137696885.32195.12.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:11:03 +0000 Message-Id: <1137708663.8471.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 705 Lines: 23 On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 13:54 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > /* > * Initialisation code for Cyrix/NatSemi VSA1 softaudio > * > * (C) Copyright 2003 Red Hat Inc > * > > Why was a new OSS driver written and accepted at such a late date, when > OSS was already deprecated? Because 1. I wanted the support 2. It was needed for my employers systems which like everyone else were still OSS at the time Welcome to the *real world* Alan - 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/