[alsa-devel] Can we remove un-used Sound driver ?

Kuninori Morimoto kuninori.morimoto.gx at renesas.com
Mon Feb 9 02:10:05 CET 2015


Hi Manuel, Mark

> >> I'm very sad, but...
> >> Good bye sh7760
> >> Good bye ssi
> >> Good bye hac
> 
> I still have working hardware for those 3 files, I just need to dust
> it off.  But the last time I checked (~3 years ago) I had no issues
> with sound.

I didn't know that there is user of these drivers...
On which board ?

> > Hrm.  At least migor was active relatively recently, Guennadi was
> > working on it in 2012 which isn't *that* long ago and there may well be
> > systems still in the field.  There's also still board code for migor in
> > arch/sh so it's an upstream platform.  Some of the others like SSI and
> > HAC are definitely not showing any signs of anyone being interested
> > though and I'd not be surprised if they'd been broken at some point.
> 
> I still have the full board support code for the SH7760 hardware I originally
> wrote the above sound drivers for.  If there's interest I can whip
> it in shape for submission.

We need to keep existing driver if there is user...


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