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

From: Jaroslav Kysela
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 07:40:37 EST


On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > this is like whining about the oh so complex networking infrastructure
> > and iptables and constantly reminiscing how simple it used to be to set
> > up a modem on /dev/ttyS0.
>
> Can be nearly all CONFIGured out. With the removal of the sane
> sound drivers that would be impossible though.

The code reduction is possible also for the ALSA midlevel code.
For example, removing the verbose /proc support might save some bytes and
so on.

Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxx>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs
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