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| author | Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2007-10-18 03:06:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-18 14:37:26 -0700 |
| commit | fc37449f7959aeedc2d38b183468ae73c9166fb6 (patch) | |
| tree | 3aaf169f3b9d9c9deb69802aa7c81354d55cf0c8 /Documentation | |
| parent | 5b4db0c2f25925fcfc17fa7233b7b90dc023d207 (diff) | |
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The next round of scheduled OSS code removal
This patch contains the next round of scheduled OSS code removal.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/oss/es1371 | 64 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 71 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 5b25162cd9a4..6b0f963f5379 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -219,13 +219,6 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, --------------------------- -What: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS -When: options in 2.6.22, code in 2.6.24 -Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements -Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> - ---------------------------- - What: ACPI procfs interface When: July 2008 Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008. diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/es1371 b/Documentation/sound/oss/es1371 deleted file mode 100644 index c3151266771c..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/sound/oss/es1371 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,64 +0,0 @@ -/proc/sound, /dev/sndstat -------------------------- - -/proc/sound and /dev/sndstat is not supported by the -driver. To find out whether the driver succeeded loading, -check the kernel log (dmesg). - - -ALaw/uLaw sample formats ------------------------- - -This driver does not support the ALaw/uLaw sample formats. -ALaw is the default mode when opening a sound device -using OSS/Free. The reason for the lack of support is -that the hardware does not support these formats, and adding -conversion routines to the kernel would lead to very ugly -code in the presence of the mmap interface to the driver. -And since xquake uses mmap, mmap is considered important :-) -and no sane application uses ALaw/uLaw these days anyway. -In short, playing a Sun .au file as follows: - -cat my_file.au > /dev/dsp - -does not work. Instead, you may use the play script from -Chris Bagwell's sox-12.14 package (available from the URL -below) to play many different audio file formats. -The script automatically determines the audio format -and does do audio conversions if necessary. -http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/cbagwell/projects.html - - -Blocking vs. nonblocking IO ---------------------------- - -Unlike OSS/Free this driver honours the O_NONBLOCK file flag -not only during open, but also during read and write. -This is an effort to make the sound driver interface more -regular. Timidity has problems with this; a patch -is available from http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/linux/pciaudio.html. -(Timidity patched will also run on OSS/Free). - - -MIDI UART ---------- - -The driver supports a simple MIDI UART interface, with -no ioctl's supported. - - -MIDI synthesizer ----------------- - -This soundcard does not have any hardware MIDI synthesizer; -MIDI synthesis has to be done in software. To allow this -the driver/soundcard supports two PCM (/dev/dsp) interfaces. - -There is a freely available software package that allows -MIDI file playback on this soundcard called Timidity. -See http://www.cgs.fi/~tt/timidity/. - - - -Thomas Sailer -t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch |