Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 19:06 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the
> > same hardware) for removal.
> > 
> > Scheduling the via82cxxx driver for removal was ACK'ed by Jeff Garzik.
> 
> I would prefer if the ICH driver be kept. It works just fine on near
> all my systems and has a much smaller binary size than the ALSA
> variant. Moving to ALSA would bloat the kernels considerably.
> 

The emu10k1 ALSA driver is considerably smaller than the OSS driver and
has more features, like most ALSA drivers.  If the ICH driver is really
smaller I suspect it's missing some functionality.

Lee

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