Why the BLEEP was my sound removed?

[Rico Secada <coolzone@it.dk>]

Hi, 

I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny on my laptop.

Normally I get sound working using the snd-maestro3 module, but I can
see that support has been removed.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464191

This is something that is affecting a lot of users.

Yes, I can use 2.6.18 instead of 2.6.26, and yes I can download and
installed firmware manually, but hell then I might as well run
something different if I have to mess around like that to get sound
working.

Can someone please explain why the BLEEP support was removed?

Rico.