From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757201AbdELHRi (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2017 03:17:38 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-f196.google.com ([209.85.223.196]:36338 "EHLO mail-io0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756913AbdELHRh (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2017 03:17:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20170511082133.GA20304@lst.de> <20170511091511.GA21055@lst.de> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 09:17:35 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: SmisxbLR4_Y7hZVmZQmDwHRkulA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jaroslav Kysela , Linus Torvalds , ALSA Development Mailing List , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Linux/m68k" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Iwai-san, On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2017 09:03:07 +0200, > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> > From: Takashi Iwai >> > Subject: [PATCH] sound: Disable the build of OSS drivers >> > >> > OSS drivers are left as badly unmaintained, and now we're facing a >> > problem to clean up the hackish set_fs() usage in their codes. Since >> > most of drivers have been covered by ALSA, and the others are dead old >> > and inactive, let's leave them RIP. >> > >> > This patch is the first step: disable the build of OSS drivers. >> > We'll eventually drop the whole codes and clean up later. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai >> > --- >> > sound/Kconfig | 26 ++++++++++++++------------ >> > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) >> > >> > diff --git a/sound/Kconfig b/sound/Kconfig >> > index ee2e69a9ecd1..41eda578d08e 100644 >> > --- a/sound/Kconfig >> > +++ b/sound/Kconfig >> > @@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ config SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM >> > >> > If unsure, say Y. >> > >> > -source "sound/oss/dmasound/Kconfig" >> > +### TO-BE-REMOVED >> > +# source "sound/oss/dmasound/Kconfig" >> >> Please note the dmasound drivers do not have ALSA equivalents. > > These belong to the latter, "dead old and inactive" ones :) > > Are these driver still used with the latest kernel? If users are I believe so. > willing to help, we can provide the port to ALSA drivers, too. That would be great, thanks! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds