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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] update OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER schedule and
	dependencies
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:04:50 +0000
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On Sad, 2006-02-11 at 15:50 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch updates the schedule for the removal of drivers depending on 
> OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER as follows:
> - adjust OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER dependencie
> - from the release of 2.6.16 till the release of 2.6.17:
>   approx. two months for users to report problems with the ALSA
>   drivers for the same hardware

Why are you obsessed with doing everything on what are (to end users)
stupidly short time scales. It doesn't matter if OSS takes another year
to finally go away so stop setting silly deadlines.