Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly differentapproach

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 19:28 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:22:23PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 18:46 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > 3. no ALSA drivers for the same hardware
> > > 
> > > SOUND_SB 
> > 
> > ALSA certainly does support "100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64,
> > ESS, Jazz16)", it would be a joke if it didn't...
> 
> That's not the problem, I should have added an explanation:
> 
> SOUND_SB (due to SOUND_KAHLUA and SOUND_PAS)
> 

Hmm.  From sound/oss/kahlua.c:

/*
 *      Initialisation code for Cyrix/NatSemi VSA1 softaudio
 *
 *      (C) Copyright 2003 Red Hat Inc <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>
 *

Why was a new OSS driver written and accepted at such a late date, when
OSS was already deprecated?

Lee

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