From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422643AbWAMMcS (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:32:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422644AbWAMMcS (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:32:18 -0500 Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il ([84.95.2.1]:17559 "EHLO mtaout1.012.net.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422643AbWAMMcS (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:32:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:32:15 +0200 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware In-reply-to: <20060113122358.GH29663@stusta.de> To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Lee Revell , Jon Mason , Jiri Slaby , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <20060113123215.GQ5399@granada.merseine.nu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <20060112175051.GA17539@us.ibm.com> <43C6ADDE.5060904@liberouter.org> <20060112200735.GD5399@granada.merseine.nu> <20060112214719.GE17539@us.ibm.com> <20060112220039.GX29663@stusta.de> <1137105731.2370.94.camel@mindpipe> <20060113113756.GL5399@granada.merseine.nu> <20060113122358.GH29663@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/