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| From | Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss |
| Date | 2017-05-12 09:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tGcS6-TT-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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Hi Iwai-san,
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> 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 <tiwai@suse.de>
> ---
> 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.
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
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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: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-05-11 22:30 +0200
Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2017-05-11 22:40 +0200
Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-05-11 22:50 +0200
Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-05-11 22:30 +0200
Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-05-12 09:10 +0200
Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-05-12 09:20 +0200
Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-05-12 09:30 +0200
Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-05-12 09:40 +0200
Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-05-12 10:10 +0200
Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-05-16 09:50 +0200
Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-05-16 10:50 +0200
Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2017-05-12 10:40 +0200
Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-05-12 09:20 +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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