On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 21:27 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
No, these are declarations for OSS-lib. It doesn't belong to kernel, but it's better to keep it for compatibility in some way.
But not in the kernel for sure. I just checked and for example: OSS_init is not used anywhere in the kernel. The kernel headers are not a "dump all your stuff" ground anymore.
So I encourage you to find a better home for the user space library definitons. We can let the definiton stay for a while - but eventually they have to be dropped from the kernel.
The last free version of OSSlib that matches this header is from ~1997, and no current distro appears to be shipping it. All new OSSlib versions (the oldest I found was from ~2003) contain in their documentation:
"Older versions of some OSS include files are distributed with various operating systems. There is no danger in using them but applications written for more recent OSS versions will not compile with older header files.
The latest versions of these include files (such as soundcard.h) are distributed in ../include/sys. Use the -I/usr/lib/oss/include switch when compiling programs. Alternatively copy these files to /usr/include/sys so that they replace the original ones."
I think it's safe enough to assume that everyone that builds against OSSlib by now also has the correct version of the header installed. Consequently, we should just drop the #ifndef __KERNEL__ section of soundcard.h (all the macros in there depend on the extern declarations), and maybe add an
#ifdef OSSLIB #error need to use <sys/soundcard.h> from libOSSlib #endif
sys/soundcard.h is also pointing to linux/soundcard.h, we need to move all this stuff to sys/soundcard.h.
Sam also requested to move this stuff to other place.
We are waiting for Takashi reply.
-- JSR