[alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Iwai-san,

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> Subject: [PATCH] sound: Disable the build of OSS drivers
>
> OSS drivers are left as badly unmaintained, and now we're facing a
> problem to clean up the hackish set_fs() usage in their codes.  Since
> most of drivers have been covered by ALSA, and the others are dead old
> and inactive, let's leave them RIP.
>
> This patch is the first step: disable the build of OSS drivers.
> We'll eventually drop the whole codes and clean up later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> ---
>  sound/Kconfig | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/Kconfig b/sound/Kconfig
> index ee2e69a9ecd1..41eda578d08e 100644
> --- a/sound/Kconfig
> +++ b/sound/Kconfig
> @@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ config SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM
>
>           If unsure, say Y.
>
> -source "sound/oss/dmasound/Kconfig"
> +### TO-BE-REMOVED
> +# source "sound/oss/dmasound/Kconfig"

Please note the dmasound drivers do not have ALSA equivalents.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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