isa sound modules dropped?

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sat Dec 3 06:53:54 UTC 2005


On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:43:00PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> The rationale is to start pruning out some of those drivers
> that aren't used by anything any more, such as 3c501, AdLib, and
> other antiquities.

It also prunes stuff found in later laptops because some of the sound
devices ike the CS423x attach to both an ISA bus card or various poci
bridge "glue" bus interfaces but come under "ISA"

Stops a lot of older thinkpads being useful for example. (eg TP600)

Alan




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