From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932900AbXCZHhp (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:37:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933637AbXCZHho (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:37:44 -0400 Received: from gepetto.dc.ltu.se ([130.240.42.40]:35886 "EHLO gepetto.dc.ltu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932900AbXCZHho (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:37:44 -0400 Message-ID: <460776B2.3070404@student.ltu.se> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:30:58 +0200 From: Richard Knutsson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.22 patch] more scheduled OSS driver removal References: <20070324130602.GD752@stusta.de> <4607213B.9070005@student.ltu.se> <75b66ecd0703252116m5216ec8dy78528f512ae63747@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <75b66ecd0703252116m5216ec8dy78528f512ae63747@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Revell wrote: > On 3/25/07, Richard Knutsson wrote: >> Adrian Bunk wrote: >> > This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that: >> > - have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions >> and >> > - whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.20. >> > >> Sorry for this late respond >> >> Is sound/oss/emu10k1/ really ready to be replaced? According to a friend >> of mine, who got the hardware, the ALSA still lacks feature provided by >> the OSS-driver. He mentioned some sort of programmable memory (forgot >> the name for that) with whom you can run small programs to manipulate >> the sounds (adding echo and such). > > He's referring to EMU DSP manager. (emudspmgr I think it's called). > The ALSA equivalent is ld10k1. It might not be as mature as the OSS > equivalent, but are we really going to keep obsolete drivers in the > kernel just because the userspace tools for the old driver are more > mature? Good! I forward that info to him. BTW, I did not mean to suggest we keep the OSS instead of ALSA. Just voiced if it is _ready_ to be replaced. But since there is no regression report filed (believed he already made one) I will pipe down :) > >> Also, he got problems with getting >> more accurate control of the volume (guess this is more a userland >> issue). >> He seems to have done his homework but only got to pages where other >> peoples had the same problem. >> > > I guess he's referring to the well known "Master volume only controls > front output" problem. This really does need to be resolved, as many > other ALSA drivers are effected. Isn't this quite a basic feature?! Is there somewhere to monitor the progress on this? Thanks for your help! Richard Knutsson