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

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Hi Iwai-san,

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2017 09:03:07 +0200,
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> 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.
>
> 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

--
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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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