From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261948AbVCNEJz (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:09:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261526AbVCNEJz (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:09:55 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:34177 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261948AbVCNEIV (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:08:21 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:07:53 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Greg Stark Cc: s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk, gsstark@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pmcfarland@downeast.net Subject: Re: OSS Audio borked between 2.6.6 and 2.6.10 Message-Id: <20050313200753.20411bdb.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <87sm2y7uon.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> References: <87u0ng90mo.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> <200503130152.52342.pmcfarland@downeast.net> <874qff89ob.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> <200503140103.55354.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <87sm2y7uon.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg Stark wrote: > > In any case "X code is broken" "why not use Y code instead" isn't really > productive. It's a good thing I was using the OSS drivers; if everyone used > the alsa drivers and nobody was testing the OSS drivers nobody would know they > were broken. I would agree with that. If it's in the tree and the config system offers it, it should work. And if it _used_ to work, and no longer does so then double bad. Are you able to narrow it down to something more fine grained than "between 2.6.6 and 2.6.9-rc1"?