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

Takashi Iwai
2006-01-05T11:15:46Z

At Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:52:32 +0100,
Florian Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:28:59 +0100
> Marcin Dalecki <dalecki.marcin@neostrada.pl> wrote:
>
> >
> > On 2006-01-04, at 19:17, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> > > Maybe create a /proc control, so users can revert
> > > to the olde behaviour if there really is any need.
> >
> > YES YES! After all who doesn't use his system logged in as root?
>
> Well, maybe it is a bad idea. Got a better one up your sleeve? Or just
> sarcasm?
>
> Maybe make it a .asoundrc option (which libasound reads everytime a
> device is opened anyways). Maybe even per device.

That sounds better. The hw plug of alsa-lib can have a new option to
force non-blocking mode open. So, no change in the kernel side at
all.

Thanks,

Takashi