Re: [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 02:32:15PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> 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?
>...

There are two drivers, each with it's own features and bugs.

Either the ALSA driver is better in any respect making the OSS driver 
simply obsolete, or there are problems in the ALSA driver that should be 
reported and fixed.

Removing the OSS driver forces users to report the problems with the 
ALSA driver making the latter better for everyone.

> Cheers,
> Muli

cu
Adrian

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