Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 3rd

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 19:53 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support
> the same hardware) for removal.
> 
> A rationale of the patch is in
>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/18/305
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> Acked-By: Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>

Ack for the dmasound_pmac bits

Ben.

> ---
> 
>  Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |    7 +++++++
>  sound/oss/Kconfig                          |   16 +++++++++++++++-
>  sound/oss/dmasound/Kconfig                 |    2 +-
>  3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.old	2007-01-04 19:02:33.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt	2007-01-04 19:04:46.000000000 +0100
> @@ -221,3 +221,10 @@
>  Who:	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
>  
>  ---------------------------
> +
> +What:  drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS
> +When:  options in 2.6.22, code in 2.6.24
> +Why:   OSS drivers with ALSA replacements
> +Who:   Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> +
> +---------------------------
> --- linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/sound/oss/Kconfig.old	2007-01-04 19:04:58.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/sound/oss/Kconfig	2007-01-04 19:07:30.000000000 +0100
> @@ -5,6 +5,20 @@
>  #
>  # Prompt user for primary drivers.
>  
> +config OBSOLETE_OSS
> +	bool "Obsolete OSS drivers"
> +	depends on SOUND_PRIME
> +	help
> +	  This option enables support for obsolete OSS drivers that
> +	  are scheduled for removal in the near future since there
> +	  are ALSA drivers for the same hardware.
> +
> +	  Please contact Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> if you had to
> +	  say Y here because your soundcard is not properly supported
> +	  by ALSA.
> +
> +	  If unsure, say N.
> +
>  config SOUND_BT878
>  	tristate "BT878 audio dma"
>  	depends on SOUND_PRIME && PCI
> @@ -33,7 +47,7 @@
>  
>  config SOUND_ES1371
>  	tristate "Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371)"
> -	depends on SOUND_PRIME && PCI
> +	depends on SOUND_PRIME && PCI && OBSOLETE_OSS
>  	help
>  	  Say Y or M if you have a PCI sound card utilizing the Ensoniq
>  	  ES1371 chipset, such as Ensoniq's AudioPCI97. To find out if
> --- linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/sound/oss/dmasound/Kconfig.old	2007-01-04 19:07:04.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/sound/oss/dmasound/Kconfig	2007-01-04 19:07:28.000000000 +0100
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
>  
>  config DMASOUND_PMAC
>  	tristate "PowerMac DMA sound support"
> -	depends on PPC32 && PPC_PMAC && SOUND && I2C
> +	depends on PPC32 && PPC_PMAC && SOUND && I2C && OBSOLETE_OSS
>   	select DMASOUND
>  	help
>  	  If you want to use the internal audio of your PowerMac in Linux,