Re: [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:23:58PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> In my experience with scheduling OSS drivers for removal, users simply 
> use the OSS drivers unless you tell them very explicitely that the OSS 
> driver will go.

If the OSS drivers satisfy them, what's wrong with it?

> It shouldn't be too hard to port the support to ALSA if someone with the  
> hardware is willing to test patches.

Unfortunately, I have a different trident variant (the 5451).

> The goal is to get people still using OSS drivers where ALSA drivers 
> support the same hardware to use the ALSA drivers - and if there were 
> bugs in the ALSA drivers preventing them to switch to ALSA, to report 
> them to the ALSA bug tracking system.
> 
> This has the following advantages:
> - better ALSA drivers

This one is fine.

> - get rid of some unmaintained code in the kernel

This one is irrelevant for trident - I maintain it.

Cheers,
Muli
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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