On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 07:06:39PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> 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.
???
$ ls -la sound/oss/i810_audio.o sound/pci/intel8x0.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bunk bunk 38056 2005-10-30 13:43 sound/oss/i810_audio.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bunk bunk 34344 2005-10-30 13:44 sound/pci/intel8x0.o
$
The general decision for the OSS -> ALSA move was long ago.
If you have a real issue with the ALSA driver please submit a proper
bug report to the ALSA bug tracking system and tell me the bug number.
> -Andi
cu
Adrian
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