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

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Date:   Thu, 11 May 2017 13:28:49 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        "moderated list:SOUND - SOC LAYER / DYNAMIC AUDIO POWER MANAGEM..." 
        <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> wrote:
>
> Since no one cried against it so far, I'll try to smuggle the
> following patch into 4.12.

Can we instead just disable it with a one-liner that just makes
SOUND_PRIME have a

     depends on n

in it, so that you can't select it.

Commenting out stuff in the Kconfig fine is not how we normally do
these things..

            Linus