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

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Date:	Sun, 23 May 2010 10:36:01 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>, 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>,
	"Linux/m68k" <linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bkl: Pushdowns for sound/oss ?

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 16:06, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 03:45:04PM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
>> 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.

There are no ALSA equivalents for the m68k Amiga/Atari/Q40 dmasound drivers yet.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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