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Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss
Date 2017-05-11 11:20 +0200
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On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Yeah, I also started looking at it after reading the LWN article.
> The removal of set_fs() in ALSA part was already finished, and I'm
> currently brushing up the patches.  It'll be in 4.13 at latest.

Great!

> That said, I'd love to drop that legacy stuff; or maybe as a
> soft-landing, begin with disabling the build of sound/oss in Kconfig.
> 
> The latter can be done even for 4.12, if Linus doesn't mind.

I'd be absolutely in favor of trying that and seeing if anyone
screams.

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future of sounds/oss Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-11 10:30 +0200
  Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-05-11 10:50 +0200
    Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-11 11:20 +0200
    Re: future of sounds/oss Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> - 2017-05-11 12:10 +0200
      Re: future of sounds/oss Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> - 2017-05-11 12:40 +0200
        Re: future of sounds/oss Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-05-11 14:20 +0200

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