From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: future of sounds/oss Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 11:15:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20170511091511.GA21055@lst.de> References: <20170511082133.GA20304@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from newverein.lst.de (verein.lst.de [213.95.11.211]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F496266BF2 for ; Thu, 11 May 2017 11:15:12 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Yeah, I also started looking at it after reading the LWN article. > The removal of set_fs() in ALSA part was already finished, and I'm > currently brushing up the patches. It'll be in 4.13 at latest. Great! > That said, I'd love to drop that legacy stuff; or maybe as a > soft-landing, begin with disabling the build of sound/oss in Kconfig. > > The latter can be done even for 4.12, if Linus doesn't mind. I'd be absolutely in favor of trying that and seeing if anyone screams. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755060AbdEKJPO (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 May 2017 05:15:14 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:53843 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751028AbdEKJPN (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 May 2017 05:15:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 11:15:11 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jaroslav Kysela , Linus Torvalds , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss Message-ID: <20170511091511.GA21055@lst.de> References: <20170511082133.GA20304@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Yeah, I also started looking at it after reading the LWN article. > The removal of set_fs() in ALSA part was already finished, and I'm > currently brushing up the patches. It'll be in 4.13 at latest. Great! > That said, I'd love to drop that legacy stuff; or maybe as a > soft-landing, begin with disabling the build of sound/oss in Kconfig. > > The latter can be done even for 4.12, if Linus doesn't mind. I'd be absolutely in favor of trying that and seeing if anyone screams.