Re: OSS driver removal, 2nd round (v2)

Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Q: What about the OSS emulation in ALSA?
A: The OSS emulation in ALSA is not affected by my patches
(and it's not in any way scheduled for removal).

I again object to removing the old ICH sound driver.
It does the same as the Alsa driver in much less code and is ideal
for generic monolithic kernels

-Andi
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