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Date:	Sun, 18 May 2008 09:45:51 +0300
From:	Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the OSS trident driver

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:23:55AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:47:08AM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> >...
> > Also, I no longer have working trident hardware---if someone else does
> > and can test this, please let me know. Otherwise we can should
> > probably go ahead and remove this old OSS driver.
> 
> Considering that we have a working ALSA driver for this hardware, and 
> your past objections against the removal were the sole reason why this 
> is the only PCI OSS driver we still have in the tree, I'd actually 
> prefer doing this (patch below).
> 
> Is this OK for you?

Yep. Please also add to the patch the CREDITS snippet below.

> SOUND_TRIDENT was the last PCI OSS driver, and since there's already an 
> ALSA driver for the same hardware we can remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>

Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 8fec7b3..2259308 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -317,6 +317,14 @@ S: 2322 37th Ave SW
 S: Seattle, Washington 98126-2010
 S: USA
 
+N: Muli Ben-Yehuda
+E: mulix@...ix.org
+E: muli@...ibm.com
+W: http://www.mulix.org
+D: trident OSS sound driver, x86-64 dma-ops and Calgary IOMMU,
+D: KVM and Xen bits and other misc. hackery.
+S: Haifa, Israel
+
 N: Johannes Berg
 E: johannes@...solutions.net
 W: http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/
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