At Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:19:53 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
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.
So he was grumbling about ISA sound card hardware design? Then I understand and agree well. Though, the fact that it isn't discoverable is same on many old embedded device drivers. The difference is whether it's used only in a custom kernel or in a generic kernel by distros.
Takashi