Re: OSS: cleanup or throw away

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 07:55:52PM +0100, Jos Hulzink wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While fixing some "deprecated" issues in the OSS drivers, I wondered whether 
> this makes sense, as entire OSS is marked deprecated. Will OSS make it until 
> 2.7, or will it be dropped soon ? (In other words, should I take care of the 
> OSS drivers or not bother about them)

In my not so humble opinion, throwing OSS away will be a big mistake,
as long as there are people willing to maintain it. Keep it there and
let the users (or distributions) choose what to use. 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
do. Personally, I maintain one OSS driver, and fix bugs in others
occasionally. 

Cheers, 
Muli 
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