From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754449Ab0IVOQK (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:16:10 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:62346 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752516Ab0IVOQJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:16:09 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: John Kacur Subject: Re: [PATCH] SOUND-OSS: Remove sh_dac_audio Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:15:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.35-16-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: lkml , Takashi Iwai , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela , ralf@linux-mips.org, Frederic Weisbecker References: <1285156021-4973-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1285156021-4973-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009221615.42710.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:erBql4XM+bA+WG0HwXy/JzW0bP/dp7zYPj60GfNvhTB 2EWJPbIcwHh/QdArwEpcJvIqmXsb5bQx0GLXrmX9ah/yTMYgBO aAH6xYk8atuOqwINy+vTygTkdZBANXEtvRmT4ZlejoC4+jOFDe q5wsvJQrDPRyjqvW4Haabnz9YlJL+7kIibvA4wnEtOUqo40TYy 2J2cedWapuoAch+EZaprw== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 22 September 2010, John Kacur wrote: > Remove the SH DAC oss driver since there is an equivalent alsa driver. > oss has been deprecated for years. Furthermore this driver has BKL code > which we are trying to remove. Rather than attempt to fix this, simply > remove the driver. > > Signed-off-by: John Kacur Takashi Iwai has already queued a patch from me to turn the BKL into a driver specific mutex, the patch is now in linux-next. There are still a few things that we may want to remove rather than fix the BKL, but I don't think that's necessary here. Arnd