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Authored by emaste on Mar 18 2022, 3:56 PM.
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ISA sound cards are long obsolete. Add deprecation notices to device attach routines and man pages for:

snd_ad1816  Analog Devices AD1816 SoundPort
snd_ess     Ensoniq ESS
snd_gusc    Gravis UltraSound
snd_mss     Microsoft Sound System
snd_sbc     Creative Sound Blaster

(Will bump .Dd prior to commit)

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emaste created this revision.
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I don't have specific objections except nostalgic. I was thinking about it from perspective of Giant lock many of them use. There are few Giant-locked PCI sound drivers too, but that may go separately: either fix or also remove.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 18 2022, 4:27 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.