From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 3rd round
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:31:15 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1167946275.5273.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070104185353.GI20714@stusta.de>
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,
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2007-01-04 18:53 [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 3rd round Adrian Bunk
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