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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:16:40 +0200
From:	Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.22 patch] more scheduled OSS driver removal

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:26:19AM +0200, 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). 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.
>>     

> Current number of regressions in the ALSA emu10k1 driver people gave me 
> numbers of open ALSA bugs for:
>   0
>   
Oh ok, I will let him know that. Thanks

Richard Knutsson

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