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

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri May 12 2017 - 03:04:31 EST


Hi Iwai-san,

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> 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>

> --- 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"

Please note the dmasound drivers do not have ALSA equivalents.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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