At Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:46:47 +0300, Dmitry Artamonow wrote:
Yay, someone finally removing this.
I never saw this going in, but when I read through it, it was totally iPAQ specific. Having seen soo much effort put in to the OSS driver to make it flexible, have the iPAQ people use that, and then write their own ALSA specific driver irked the people who contributed to the OSS driver, to the extent that the OSS support was ripped out. (So I have platforms here were there _was_ full sound support but with the advent of ALSA, lost all sound support.) It was certainly a sad day when this driver was merged.
That saddens me most is that all this years since it was merged various people spent their time to do some small fixes, cleanups and API conversion in this driver, and nobody ever noticed that it can't even be compiled.
It could be still built with alsa-driver tree, which works for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels (unfortunately 1.x and 2.0 kernels aren't supported ;) But it doesn't make sense to keep the code in 2.6 tree, of course. So now it's moved into out-of-kernel tree again.
thanks,
Takashi