From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261930AbVGaT3e (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:29:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261938AbVGaT3e (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:29:34 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:61961 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261930AbVGaT3c (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:29:32 -0400 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:29:29 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andrew Haninger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, kyle@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-ID: <20050731192929.GG3608@stusta.de> References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <105c793f050726091722f3cbb2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <105c793f050726091722f3cbb2@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Andrew Haninger wrote: > On 7/26/05, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > config SOUND_OPL3SA2 > > tristate "Yamaha OPL3-SA2 and SA3 based PnP cards" > > - depends on SOUND_OSS > > + depends on SOUND_OSS && OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER > > help > > Say Y or M if you have a card based on one of these Yamaha sound > > chipsets or the "SAx", which is actually a SA3. Read > Forgive me if I'm misreading this (I'm hardly a coder and no kernel > hacker) but, as it stands, the OPL3SA2 driver provided by ALSA and the > main kernel tree work but are not correctly detected by ALSA's > detection routines (in alsaconf) on the 2.6 kernel. The OSS drivers > work, as well, but (AFAIK) there are no methods of automatic > configuration with the OSS drivers. > > So, for people who don't feel like configuring ALSA with their OPL3SA2 > card, the OSS modules may be easier to configure and thus should be > left in until the ALSA/2.6 kernel problems are worked out with the > OPL3SA2. This is kernel bug #3117 [1] / ALSA bug #879 [2]? > -Andy cu Adrian [1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3117 [2] https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=879 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed