[alsa-devel] Audio mini conference 2014?

[Takashi Iwai]

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