Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-16 Thread Takashi Iwai
On Tue, 16 May 2017 09:45:04 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Hi Iwai-san, > > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > >> > But, looking at the tree again, I noticed that ALSA isn't built yet at > >> > all for m68k. I don't remember why it's disabled. > >> > Jaroslav, do you

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Iwai-san, On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> > But, looking at the tree again, I noticed that ALSA isn't built yet at >> > all for m68k. I don't remember why it's disabled. >> > Jaroslav, do you know the reason behind it? >> >> Because ALSA doesn't have any drivers that

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 09:27:56AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > But, looking at the tree again, I noticed that ALSA isn't built yet at > all for m68k. I don't remember why it's disabled. > Jaroslav, do you know the reason behind it? Might also just be because the m68k port had been dead in Debian

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-12 Thread Takashi Iwai
On Fri, 12 May 2017 09:30:04 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Hi Iwai-san, > > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Fri, 12 May 2017 09:17:35 +0200, > > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > >> > On Fri, 12 May 2017 09:0

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Iwai-san, On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2017 09:17:35 +0200, > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> > On Fri, 12 May 2017 09:03:07 +0200, >> > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:21

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-12 Thread Takashi Iwai
On Fri, 12 May 2017 09:17:35 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Hi Iwai-san, > > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Fri, 12 May 2017 09:03:07 +0200, > > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > >> > From: Takashi Iwai > >

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Iwai-san, On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2017 09:03:07 +0200, > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> > From: Takashi Iwai >> > Subject: [PATCH] sound: Disable the build of OSS drivers >> > >> > OSS driver

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-12 Thread Takashi Iwai
On Fri, 12 May 2017 09:03:07 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Hi Iwai-san, > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > From: Takashi Iwai > > Subject: [PATCH] sound: Disable the build of OSS drivers > > > > OSS drivers are left as badly unmaintained, and now we're facing a

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Iwai-san, On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > From: Takashi Iwai > 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

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-11 Thread Takashi Iwai
On Thu, 11 May 2017 22:28:49 +0200, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > Since no one cried against it so far, I'll try to smuggle the > > following patch into 4.12. > > Can we instead just disable it with a one-liner that just makes > SOUND_PRIM

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-11 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 05/11/17 13:28, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> >> Since no one cried against it so far, I'll try to smuggle the >> following patch into 4.12. > > Can we instead just disable it with a one-liner that just makes > SOUND_PRIME have a > > depe

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-11 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Since no one cried against it so far, I'll try to smuggle the > following patch into 4.12. Can we instead just disable it with a one-liner that just makes SOUND_PRIME have a depends on n in it, so that you can't select it. Commentin

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-11 Thread Takashi Iwai
On Thu, 11 May 2017 11:15:11 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Yeah, I also started looking at it after reading the LWN article. > > The removal of set_fs() in ALSA part was already finished, and I'm > > currently brushing up the

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Yeah, I also started looking at it after reading the LWN article. > The removal of set_fs() in ALSA part was already finished, and I'm > currently brushing up the patches. It'll be in 4.13 at latest. Great! > That said, I'd love to

Re: [alsa-devel] future of sounds/oss

2017-05-11 Thread Takashi Iwai
On Thu, 11 May 2017 10:21:33 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Ho Jaroslav, hi Takashi, > > do you know who still uses the sound/oss drivers and why? I've > recently been looking into getting rid of set_fs for using > copy_{from,to}_user and friends on kernel pointers, and the sound > code is