Re: [PATCH] SOUND-OSS: Remove sh_dac_audio

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Sep 22 2010 - 10:16:15 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>

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.

Arnd
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