Re: [PATCH v2] sound: Disable the build of OSS drivers

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu May 11 2017 - 19:51:15 EST


On 05/11/17 13:58, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> ---
>
> v1->v2: Smaller changes, as Linus and Randy suggested.
> The first dmasound Kconfig inclusion is still commented out since
> it's shorter/simpler in the end.
>
> sound/Kconfig | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/Kconfig b/sound/Kconfig
> index ee2e69a9ecd1..de23fc39cec8 100644
> --- a/sound/Kconfig
> +++ b/sound/Kconfig
> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ config SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM
>
> If unsure, say Y.
>
> -source "sound/oss/dmasound/Kconfig"
> +# source "sound/oss/dmasound/Kconfig"
>
> if !M68K && !UML
>
> @@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ endif # SND
> menuconfig SOUND_PRIME
> tristate "Open Sound System (DEPRECATED)"
> select SOUND_OSS_CORE
> + depends on BROKEN
> help
> Say 'Y' or 'M' to enable Open Sound System drivers.
>
>


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~Randy