From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261525AbVG1PGM (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:06:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261546AbVG1PGI (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:06:08 -0400 Received: from mail.thorsten-knabe.de ([82.141.44.28]:16904 "EHLO mail.thorsten-knabe.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261525AbVG1PEV (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:04:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:04:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Thorsten Knabe X-X-Sender: tek@tek01.intern.thorsten-knabe.de To: Adrian Bunk cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal In-Reply-To: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin@thorsten-knabe.de Content analysis details: (-5.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------- -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Regards Thorsten -- ___ | | / E-Mail: linux@thorsten-knabe.de |horsten |/\nabe WWW: http://linux.thorsten-knabe.de