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SubjectRe: OSS: cleanup or throw away
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:03:27AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:59:21PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:22:21PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > >...
> > > I've seen
> > > multiple bug reports of cards that work with OSS and don't work with
> > > ALSA (and vice versa), so keeping both seems the proper thing to
> > >...
> >
> > Wouldn't it be better to get the ALSA drivers working in such cases?
>
> It would; but until they do, ditching OSS is a regression.
>...

Clearly.

Ditching OSS at the beginning of 2.7 will give several years to identify
and fix such regressions.

> Cheers,
> Muli

cu
Adrian

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