From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262865AbUKRSqp (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:46:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262859AbUKRSoZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:44:25 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:40321 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262862AbUKRSmm (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:42:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:41:27 -0500 From: Alan Cox To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , "John W. Linville" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.10-rc2] oss: AC97 quirk facility Message-ID: <20041118184127.GA11856@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20041117163016.A5351@tuxdriver.com> <20041117145644.005e54ff.akpm@osdl.org> <419CE98B.2090304@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:36:21PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> Dumb question: why not just use the ALSA driver? > > > >Until we actually remove the OSS drivers, it's sorta silly to leave them > >broken. > > It's just as silly to fix something we're removing anyway. A lot of people are still using OSS. Thats likel to continue for some time when people are using new kernels on older distributions