Development of Linux for the HP PA-RISC platform

Lee Revell | 12 Aug 21:58

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version 2)

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:49 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:13:51PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that 
> > > support the same hardware) for removal.
> > > 
> > > Scheduling the via82cxxx driver for removal was ACK'ed by Jeff Garzik.
> > > 
> > 
> > Someone on linux-audio-user just pointed out that the OSS USB audio and
> > midi modules were never deprecated, much less scheduled to be removed.
> > 
> > Maybe the best way to deprecate them is to move them to Sound -> OSS,
> > that's where they belong anyway.
> 
> I'd deprecate them without moving them.
> 

Here's the patch.  The bug was that CONFIG_USB_AUDIO and CONFIG_USB_MIDI
need to depend on CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME.

It also fixes some typos and clarifies the help text.

Signed-Off-By: Lee Revell <rlrevell <at> joe-job.com>

--- linux-2.6.13-rc4/drivers/usb/class/Kconfig~	2005-08-12 15:54:36.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc4/drivers/usb/class/Kconfig	2005-08-12 15:57:38.000000000 -0400
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@
 	depends on USB

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Adrian Bunk | 14 Aug 13:00

[2.6 patch] schedule OSS USB drivers for removal

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 03:58:48PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:49 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:13:51PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that 
> > > > support the same hardware) for removal.
> > > > 
> > > > Scheduling the via82cxxx driver for removal was ACK'ed by Jeff Garzik.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Someone on linux-audio-user just pointed out that the OSS USB audio and
> > > midi modules were never deprecated, much less scheduled to be removed.
> > > 
> > > Maybe the best way to deprecate them is to move them to Sound -> OSS,
> > > that's where they belong anyway.
> > 
> > I'd deprecate them without moving them.
> > 
> 
> Here's the patch.  The bug was that CONFIG_USB_AUDIO and CONFIG_USB_MIDI
> need to depend on CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME.
>...

This doesn't deprecate them (I've deprecated only some of the options 
below CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME).

What about the patch below?

A second "deprecated OSS" option doesn't do much harm and seems to be 
the easiest solution.

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