* Drop 2.2/2.4 kernel support in alsa-driver build?
@ 2011-07-12 16:12 Takashi Iwai
2011-07-12 16:51 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2011-07-12 20:48 ` Clemens Ladisch
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From: Takashi Iwai @ 2011-07-12 16:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: alsa-devel
[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.
thanks,
Takashi
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* Re: Drop 2.2/2.4 kernel support in alsa-driver build?
2011-07-12 16:12 Drop 2.2/2.4 kernel support in alsa-driver build? Takashi Iwai
@ 2011-07-12 16:51 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2011-07-12 20:48 ` Clemens Ladisch
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From: Jaroslav Kysela @ 2011-07-12 16:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Takashi Iwai; +Cc: alsa-devel
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 <perex@perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.
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* Re: Drop 2.2/2.4 kernel support in alsa-driver build?
2011-07-12 16:12 Drop 2.2/2.4 kernel support in alsa-driver build? Takashi Iwai
2011-07-12 16:51 ` Jaroslav Kysela
@ 2011-07-12 20:48 ` Clemens Ladisch
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From: Clemens Ladisch @ 2011-07-12 20:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Takashi Iwai, alsa-devel
Takashi Iwai wrote:
>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.
>Is there any active user of such kernels with the latest alsa-driver?
When I was still testing such older kernels, I regularly
found compatibility bugs. So I guess the current alsa-driver
would not work anyway.
Regards,
Clemens
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