26 Aug
2014
26 Aug
'14
12:19 p.m.
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:11:30PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Mark Brown wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 08:21:38AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
- Code removals (Takashi) There have been actions to remove the codes for old hardware recently. Which is acceptable? Feature removals, too?
Linus was muttering about ISA sound card drivers.
Interesting, I thought Linus doesn't mind much about such "dead" drivers.
It was because they aren't automatically probeable without loading the driver and taking a look at the hardware - if a distro wants to use them it ends up having to load and unload the module.