linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SOUND-OSS: Remove sh_dac

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Message-Id: <201009221615.42710.arnd@arndb.de>
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
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