From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754534Ab0IVOTm (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:19:42 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:46798 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753025Ab0IVOTm (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:19:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:19:38 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: John Kacur , lkml , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela , ralf@linux-mips.org, Frederic Weisbecker Subject: Re: [PATCH] SOUND-OSS: Remove sh_dac_audio In-Reply-To: <201009221615.42710.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1285156021-4973-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com> <201009221615.42710.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.6 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/23.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:15:42 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > 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. Unless any strong objection comes up, I'll remove the driver from my tree, maybe tomorrow, so that it'll be reflected to linux-next. thanks, Takashi