Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752149AbWAELLA (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:11:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752148AbWAELK7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:10:59 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:29596 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752146AbWAELK6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:10:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:15:46 +0100 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Florian Schmidt Cc: Marcin Dalecki , Adrian Bunk , Jesper Juhl , Olivier Galibert , Alistair John Strachan , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, kyle@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal In-Reply-To: <20060104205232.1dd5f308@mango.fruits.de> References: <20060103203732.GF5262@irc.pl> <9a8748490601031256x916bddav794fecdcf263fb55@mail.gmail.com> <20060103215654.GH3831@stusta.de> <20060103221314.GB23175@irc.pl> <20060103231009.GI3831@stusta.de> <20060104000344.GJ3831@stusta.de> <20060104010123.GK3831@stusta.de> <20060104113726.3bd7a649@mango.fruits.de> <20060104191750.798af1da@mango.fruits.de> <74F7C515-831F-42E4-9A6F-70A9C11E8BB3@neostrada.pl> <20060104205232.1dd5f308@mango.fruits.de> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.5 (beta21) (corn) (+CVS-20050720) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1017 Lines: 32 At Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:52:32 +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:28:59 +0100 > Marcin Dalecki wrote: > > > > > On 2006-01-04, at 19:17, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > > Maybe create a /proc control, so users can revert > > > to the olde behaviour if there really is any need. > > > > YES YES! After all who doesn't use his system logged in as root? > > Well, maybe it is a bad idea. Got a better one up your sleeve? Or just > sarcasm? > > Maybe make it a .asoundrc option (which libasound reads everytime a > device is opened anyways). Maybe even per device. That sounds better. The hw plug of alsa-lib can have a new option to force non-blocking mode open. So, no change in the kernel side at all. Thanks, Takashi - 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/