From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] SOUND-OSS: Remove sh_dac_audio Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:15:42 +0200 Message-ID: <201009221615.42710.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1285156021-4973-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1285156021-4973-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John Kacur Cc: lkml , Takashi Iwai , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela , ralf@linux-mips.org, Frederic Weisbecker List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 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