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Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 11:15:11 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss
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On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Yeah, I also started looking at it after reading the LWN article.
> The removal of set_fs() in ALSA part was already finished, and I'm
> currently brushing up the patches.  It'll be in 4.13 at latest.

Great!

> That said, I'd love to drop that legacy stuff; or maybe as a
> soft-landing, begin with disabling the build of sound/oss in Kconfig.
> 
> The latter can be done even for 4.12, if Linus doesn't mind.

I'd be absolutely in favor of trying that and seeing if anyone
screams.