Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261265AbTEEUdU (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 16:33:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261272AbTEEUdU (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 16:33:20 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:28873 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261265AbTEEUdT (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 16:33:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3EB6CD68.9010506@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 16:45:28 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, perex@suse.cz, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove unused funcion proc_mknod References: <20030505190045.A22238@lst.de> <20030505192248.GD10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030505213004.B24006@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20030505213004.B24006@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 674 Lines: 21 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Jaroslav, can we just drop that junk or is it still used by userland. > And if yes how long will it take to get an alsa-libs release out to > not rely on it? Not commenting on this issue specifically, but in general, alsa-lib can be used to mitigate the effect of kernel changes on userland. This was a big selling point for ALSA, back when we were trying to decide what to do about OSS. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/