linux-kernel - Re: bkl: Pushdowns for sound/oss ?

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Date:	Fri, 21 May 2010 10:06:13 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@...glemail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: bkl: Pushdowns for sound/oss ?

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 03:45:04PM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
> Hi Ralf
> 
> I was looking at doing some of that last remaining ioctl bkl-pushdowns, in 
> particular in:
> sound/oss/swarm_cs4297a.c
> sound/oss/msnd_pinnacle.c
> sound/oss/sh_dac_audio.c
> sound/oss/vwsnd.c
> sound/oss/dmasound/dmasound_core.c
> sound/oss/dmasound/dmasound_core.c
> 
> when I noticed they were including asm files from mips. I went so far as 
> to compile my own mips tool chain, but I wasn't able to compile the above.
> Being oss sound, I was wondering if these are still maintained or are 
> marked for removal some time in the future.
> 
> If there is merely a problem with my toolchain, then that can be fixed, 
> but there is no point in wasting time with these if no-one uses them.

Can we just drop OSS?  It's beend deprecated and mostly dead for years.
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