[PATCH] The scheduled removal of some OSS drivers

This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that:
- have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions and
- whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.17.

[michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 81 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/sonicvibes b/Documentation/sound/oss/sonicvibes
deleted file mode 100644
index 84dee2e0b37..00000000000
--- a/Documentation/sound/oss/sonicvibes
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,81 +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
-----------------
-
-The card both has an OPL compatible FM synthesizer as well as
-a wavetable synthesizer.
-
-I haven't managed so far to get the OPL synth running.
-
-Using the wavetable synthesizer requires allocating
-1-4MB of physically contiguous memory, which isn't possible
-currently on Linux without ugly hacks like the bigphysarea
-patch. Therefore, the driver doesn't support wavetable
-synthesis.
-
-
-No support from S3
-------------------
-
-I do not get any support from S3. Therefore, the driver
-still has many problems. For example, although the manual
-states that the chip should be able to access the sample
-buffer anywhere in 32bit address space, I haven't managed to
-get it working with buffers above 16M. Therefore, the card
-has the same disadvantages as ISA soundcards.
-
-Given that the card is also very noisy, and if you haven't
-already bought it, you should strongly opt for one of the
-comparatively priced Ensoniq products.
-
-
-Thomas Sailer
-t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch