From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
ralf@linux-mips.org, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SOUND-OSS: Remove sh_dac_audio
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:15:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009221615.42710.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285156021-4973-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com>
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@redhat.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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-22 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-22 11:47 [PATCH] SOUND-OSS: Remove sh_dac_audio John Kacur
2010-09-22 12:41 ` Matt Fleming
2010-09-22 12:41 ` Matt Fleming
2010-09-22 12:47 ` Paul Mundt
2010-09-22 12:47 ` Paul Mundt
2010-09-22 14:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-22 14:15 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-09-22 14:19 ` Takashi Iwai
2010-09-22 14:19 ` Takashi Iwai
2010-09-22 14:57 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-09-22 14:57 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-09-22 16:27 ` John Kacur
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