[RFC] disable OSS sound support

[Jon Masters]

Ok...before I get into a dialog know that I don't /really/ care about
this one way or the other, so whatever collective wisdom decides is
cool.../but/...

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 22:09 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
> Jon Masters wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 18:44 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > 
> >>> So my proposal is: Disable this options in rawhide (and those F11) and
> >>> add a note to the release notes that people can use padsp/aoss to make
> >>> oss apps working.

> > As I pointed out on IRC, it's just a modprobe rule loading these OSS
> > modules, so removing them from the kernel is a heavyweight solution to
> > your problem. You could trivially add a rule to remove them or change
> > the existing ones.

As I said before, this is just a modprobe rule loading the OSS modules.
I'll probably remove it upstream and in Rawhide but I really don't see
why you guys are so nuts about killing it. Very little uses OSS these
days, but there is software out there that still relies on it (until
there's a direct replacement without padsp hacks) and works well. You
seem to be arguing that a user /might/ elect to start some software we
don't like, so we should ban that activity.

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472741#c9
> Let us please go ahead with my proposed simple solution.

How about we just leave it as it is until there's a direct OSS
replacement? I look at that bug and I see "er, someone had a problem
with some OSS software" being taken as "let's all go crazy". If there
were 50 people tracking it who cared then cool, but there are 5, and all
of those are @redhat.com anyway.

Jon.