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| author | Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2006-10-04 02:17:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-04 07:55:32 -0700 |
| commit | d56b9b9c464a10ab1ee51a4c6190a2b57b8ef7a6 (patch) | |
| tree | a48388734053900a8379042757ee241d1e9dfc7b /Documentation/sound/oss/NEWS | |
| parent | 595182bcdf64fbfd7ae22c67ea6081b7d387d246 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] The scheduled removal of some OSS drivers
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 2.6.17.
[michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sound/oss/NEWS')
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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/NEWS b/Documentation/sound/oss/NEWS deleted file mode 100644 index a81e0ef72ae9..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/sound/oss/NEWS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -Linux 2.4 Sound Changes -2000-September-25 -Christoph Hellwig, <hch@infradead.org> - - - -=== isapnp support - -The Linux 2.4 Kernel does have reliable in-kernel isapnp support. -Some drivers (sb.o, ad1816.o awe_wave.o) do now support automatically -detecting and configuring isapnp devices. -If you have a not yet supported isapnp soundcard, mail me the content -of '/proc/isapnp' on your system and some information about your card -and its driver(s) so I can try to get isapnp working for it. - - - -=== soundcard resources on kernel commandline - -Before Linux 2.4 you had to specify the resources for sounddrivers -statically linked into the kernel at compile time -(in make config/menuconfig/xconfig). In Linux 2.4 the resources are -now specified at the boot-time kernel commandline (e.g. the lilo -'append=' line or everything that's after the kernel name in grub). -Read the Configure.help entry for your card for the parameters. - - -=== softoss is gone - -In Linux 2.4 the softoss in-kernel software synthesizer is no more aviable. -Use a user space software synthesizer like timidity instead. - - - -=== /dev/sndstat and /proc/sound are gone - -In older Linux versions those files exported some information about the -OSS/Free configuration to userspace. In Linux 2.3 they were removed because -they did not support the growing number of pci soundcards and there were -some general problems with this interface. - - |