From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755933Ab0EUOGQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2010 10:06:16 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:37731 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755853Ab0EUOGP (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2010 10:06:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 10:06:13 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: John Kacur Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle , Frederic Weisbecker , Arnd Bergmann , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: bkl: Pushdowns for sound/oss ? Message-ID: <20100521140613.GA15070@infradead.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 03:45:04PM +0200, John Kacur wrote: > Hi Ralf > > I was looking at doing some of that last remaining ioctl bkl-pushdowns, in > particular in: > sound/oss/swarm_cs4297a.c > sound/oss/msnd_pinnacle.c > sound/oss/sh_dac_audio.c > sound/oss/vwsnd.c > sound/oss/dmasound/dmasound_core.c > sound/oss/dmasound/dmasound_core.c > > when I noticed they were including asm files from mips. I went so far as > to compile my own mips tool chain, but I wasn't able to compile the above. > Being oss sound, I was wondering if these are still maintained or are > marked for removal some time in the future. > > If there is merely a problem with my toolchain, then that can be fixed, > but there is no point in wasting time with these if no-one uses them. Can we just drop OSS? It's beend deprecated and mostly dead for years.