[alsa-devel] [PATCH] SOUND-OSS: Remove sh_dac_audio

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Wed Sep 22 16:19:38 CEST 2010


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 <jkacur at redhat.com>
> 
> 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


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