linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ALSA: Do not build obsolete API

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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2025 13:17:57 +0100
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To: david@...t.cz,
	David Heidelberg via B4 Relay <devnull+david.ixit.cz@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: Do not build obsolete API

On Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:34:10 +0100,
David Heidelberg via B4 Relay wrote:
> 
> From: David Heidelberg <david@...t.cz>
> 
> ALSA 0.9.0-rc3 is from 2002, 23 years old.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Heidelberg <david@...t.cz>
> ---
> Maybe I could drop also the code and Kconfig option?

Thanks, applied now.

I believe it's safer to have this default only off for 6.19, then
disable for 6.20, eventually drop the dead code later.


Takashi