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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:15:42 +0200 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> To: John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com> Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, ralf@...ux-mips.org, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] SOUND-OSS: Remove sh_dac_audio On Wednesday 22 September 2010, John Kacur wrote: > Remove the SH DAC oss driver since there is an equivalent alsa driver. > oss has been deprecated for years. Furthermore this driver has BKL code > which we are trying to remove. Rather than attempt to fix this, simply > remove the driver. > > Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com> Takashi Iwai has already queued a patch from me to turn the BKL into a driver specific mutex, the patch is now in linux-next. There are still a few things that we may want to remove rather than fix the BKL, but I don't think that's necessary here. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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