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

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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Thorsten Knabe wrote:

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:

This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that
support the same hardware) for removal.

Hello Adrian.

I'm the maintainer of the OSS AD1816 sound driver. I'm aware of two
problems of the ALSA AD1816 driver, that do not show up with the OSS
driver:
- According to my own experience and user reports audio is choppy with
  some VoIP Softphones like gnophone at least when used with the ALSA
  OSS emulation layer, whereas the OSS driver is crystal clear.
- Users reported, that on some HP Kayak systems the on-board AD1816A was
  not properly detected by the ALSA driver or was detected, but there
  was no audio output. I'm not sure if the problem is still present in
  the current ALSA driver, as I do not own such a system.

Maybe the OSS driver should stay in the kernel, until those problems are
fixed in the ALSA driver.

The problem is that nobody reported us mentioned problems. We have no
bug-report regarding the AD1816A driver. Perhaps, it would be a good idea
to add a notice to the help file and/or driver that the ALSA driver should
be tested and bugs reported to the ALSA bug-tracking-system.

Hello Jaroslav.

I'll do some testing during the upcoming weekend to confirm, that the mentioned problems still exist with the current ALSA release. Last time I checked was sometime around Linux 2.6.10. I'll file a bug report of my findings to the ALSA bug tracking system and contact the author of the driver. Initially I had not spent much time on those problems, because I had an alternative working OSS driver, but since removal of the OSS seems to get closer, it's probably time to fix these issues now.

Regards
Thorsten

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