Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:47:39 +0100 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*? |
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On 2003.01.10 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > What's happening with the OSS drivers ? > > I'm still carrying a few hundred KB of changes from 2.4 for those. > > I'm not going to spent a day splitting them up, commenting them and pushing > > to Linus if we're going to be dropping various drivers. > > I consider them to be old drivers, the same way "hd.c" was. Not > necessarily useful for most people, but neither was hd.c. And it was > around for a _long_ time (heh. I needed to check. The config option is > still there ;) > > So I don't see a huge reason to remove them from the sources, but we might > well make them harder to select by mistake, for example. Right now the > config help files aren't exactly helpful, and the OSS choice is before the > ALSA one, which looks wrong. > > They should probably be marked deprecated, and if they don't get a lot of > maintenance, that's fine. > > Linus
As there is a CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL, how about a CONFIG_DEPRECATED for the opposite edge ?
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