Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:54:43 +0000
From: Martin Habets <errandir_news@mph.eclipse.co.uk>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach
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It seems to me we can already get rid of sound/oss/dmasound now.
I cannot find anything refering to it anymore, and the ALSA powermac
driver is being maintained.

Martin

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:46:00PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> My proposal to remove OSS drivers where ALSA drivers for the same 
> hardware exists had two reasons:
> 
> 1. remove obsolete and mostly unmaintained code
> 2. get bugs in the ALSA drivers reported that weren't previously
>    reported due to the possible workaround of using the OSS drivers
> 
> I'm slowly getting more and more reports for the second case.
> 
> 
> The list below divides the OSS drivers into the following three 
> categories:
> 1. ALSA drivers for the same hardware
> 2. ALSA drivers for the same hardware with known problems
> 3. no ALSA drivers for the same hardware
> 
> 
> My proposed timeline is:
> - shortly before 2.6.16 is released:
>   adjust OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER dependencies to match exactly the
>   drivers under 1.
> - from the release of 2.6.16 till the release of 2.6.17:
>   approx. two months for users to report problems with the ALSA
>   drivers for the same hardware
> - after the release of 2.6.17 (and before 2.6.18):
>   remove the subset of drivers marked at OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER without
>   known regressions in the ALSA drivers for the same hardware
> 
> 
> To make a long story short:
> 
> If you are using an OSS driver because the ALSA driver doesn't work 
> equally well on your hardware, send me an email with a bug number in the 
> ALSA bug tracking system now.
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