From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jaroslav Kysela Subject: Re: Drop 2.2/2.4 kernel support in alsa-driver build? Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:51:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4E1C7BAD.5010208@perex.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail1.perex.cz (unknown [77.48.224.245]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498C8248A6 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:51:58 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Date 12.7.2011 18:12, Takashi Iwai wrote: > [This is resent since I haven't seen my original post due to > alsa-project.org site down. If you have already read it, please > disregard.] > > Hi, > > in upcoming 3.0-kernel era, I believe it's high time to drop the > support of old 2.2/2.4 kernels in alsa-driver external builds. > Recently I changed some PCI drivers to use KBUILD_MODNAME, and this > isn't supported by the old kernels, i.e. it's currently broken for > these kernels. But I have no more gut to patch alsa-driver/* codes. > > Is there any active user of such kernels with the latest alsa-driver? > If not, let's clean up the whole things. > 2.2/2.4 kernel users can still use 1.0.24, and we can release 1.0.24.x > series if really needed. I agree. I believe that these kernels are using minimum users now. Almost all embeded devices are using 2.6 kernels, too. Jaroslav -- Jaroslav Kysela Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.