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Tejun Heo 93fe4483e6 sound: make OSS device number claiming optional and schedule its removal 
If any OSS support is enabled, regardless of built-in or module,
sound_core claims full OSS major number (that is, the old 0-255
region) to trap open attempts and request sound modules using custom
module aliases.  This feature is redundant as chrdev already has such
mechanism.  This preemptive claiming prevents alternative OSS
implementation.

The custom module aliases are scheduled to be removed and the previous
patch made soundcore emit the standard chrdev aliases too to help
transition.

This patch schedule the feature for removal in a year and makes it
optional so that developers and distros can try new things in the
meantime without rebuilding the kernel.  The pre-claiming can be
turned off by using SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM and/or kernel parameter
soundcore.preclaim_oss.

As this allows sound minors to be individually grabbed by other users,
this patch updates sound_insert_unit() such that if registering
individual device region fails, it tries the next available slot.

For details on removal plan, please read the entry added by this patch
in feature-removal-schedule.txt .

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-08-10 13:59:36 +02:00
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ABI Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6 2009-06-22 16:56:22 -07:00
accounting Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c intialize the variable before using it 2009-06-16 19:47:51 -07:00
acpi ACPI: update debug parameter documentation 2008-11-07 21:45:29 -05:00
aoe aoe: user can ask driver to forget previously detected devices 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
arm [ARM] S3C24XX: GPIO: Change to macros for GPIO numbering 2009-05-18 16:26:03 +01:00
auxdisplay .gitignore updates 2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
blackfin Blackfin arch: Add document about bfin-gpio 2009-01-07 23:14:38 +08:00
block Trivial typo fixes in Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt. 2009-07-01 10:56:25 +02:00
blockdev mflash: initial support 2009-04-07 08:12:38 +02:00
cdrom debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem. 2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
cgroups cpusets: document adding/removing cpus to cpuset elaborately 2009-06-30 18:56:01 -07:00
connector connector: maintainer/mail update. 2009-07-21 12:43:51 -07:00
console Typo: fro -> from 2007-07-19 10:04:47 -07:00
cpu-freq [CPUFREQ] minor correction to cpu-freq documentation 2009-06-15 11:49:42 -04:00
cpuidle cpuidle: Add Documentation 2008-02-14 00:16:13 -05:00
cris fix random typos 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
crypto async_tx, dmaengine: document channel allocation and api rework 2009-01-05 18:10:19 -07:00
development-process docs: Encourage better changelogs in the development process document 2009-06-04 10:32:49 -06:00
device-mapper dm raid1: add userspace log 2009-06-22 10:12:35 +01:00
DocBook mac80211: fix docbook 2009-07-08 15:24:28 -04:00
driver-model driver model: fix show/store prototypes in doc. 2009-07-12 13:02:10 -07:00
dvb V4L/DVB (12206): get_dvb_firmware: Correct errors in MPC718 firmware extraction logic 2009-07-05 19:21:49 -03:00
early-userspace Documentation: Remove last references to BitKeeper. 2008-04-21 22:19:05 +00:00
fault-injection debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem. 2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
fb Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt: fix typo 2009-06-16 19:47:58 -07:00
filesystems driver core: documentation: make it clear that sysfs is optional 2009-07-28 13:45:23 -07:00
firmware_class driver core: fix documentation of request_firmware_nowait 2009-06-15 21:30:24 -07:00
frv move frv docs one level up 2008-02-03 15:54:28 +02:00
hwmon hwmon: (f71882fg) Add support for the F71858F 2009-06-15 18:39:52 +02:00
i2c i2c: Add a sysfs interface to instantiate devices 2009-06-19 16:58:20 +02:00
i2o
ia64 trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware 2009-03-30 15:21:59 +02:00
ide ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2) 2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02:00
infiniband IPoIB: Document newish features 2009-04-08 13:52:01 -07:00
input Merge commit 'v2.6.30' into next 2009-06-11 01:58:01 -07:00
ioctl LinuxPPS: core support 2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
isdn isdn: clean up documentation index 2009-06-20 01:10:38 -07:00
ja_JP block: rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF 2009-06-19 08:08:50 +02:00
kbuild kconfig: resort the documentation of the environment variables 2009-06-09 22:37:47 +02:00
kdump trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
ko_KR HOWTO: update misspelling and word incorrected 2007-12-17 10:33:19 -08:00
laptops Merge branches 'acerhdf', 'acpi-pci-bind', 'bjorn-pci-root', 'bugzilla-12904', 'bugzilla-13121', 'bugzilla-13396', 'bugzilla-13533', 'bugzilla-13612', 'c3_lock', 'hid-cleanups', 'misc-2.6.31', 'pdc-leak-fix', 'pnpacpi', 'power_nocheck', 'thinkpad_acpi', 'video' and 'wmi' into release 2009-06-24 01:19:50 -04:00
lguest lguest and virtio: cleanup struct definitions to Linux style. 2009-07-30 16:03:46 +09:30
m68k [SCSI] 53c7xx: fix removal fallout 2008-01-11 18:22:30 -06:00
make Documentation/make/headers_install.txt 2007-10-17 08:43:05 -07:00
mips ide: remove unused CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_AU1XXX_SEQTS_PER_RQ 2009-01-14 19:19:03 +01:00
misc-devices drivers/misc/isl29003.c: driver for the ISL29003 ambient light sensor 2009-04-01 08:59:18 -07:00
mn10300 trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
mtd trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
namespaces The namespaces compatibility list doc 2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
netlabel
networking Update Andreas Koensgen's email address 2009-07-17 10:07:12 -07:00
parisc
PCI PCI AER: software error injection 2009-06-16 14:30:14 -07:00
pcmcia .gitignore updates 2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
power Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-06-14 13:46:25 -07:00
powerpc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds 2009-06-28 11:02:32 -07:00
pps LinuxPPS: core support 2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
prctl generic, x86: add tests for prctl PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC 2008-04-19 19:19:55 +02:00
RCU netfilter: nf_conntrack: nf_conntrack_alloc() fixes 2009-07-16 14:03:40 +02:00
s390 trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
scheduler sched: Documentation/sched-rt-group: Fix style issues & bump version 2009-06-21 13:12:46 +02:00
scsi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2009-06-17 09:50:44 -07:00
serial Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree. 2008-11-14 17:28:53 +00:00
sh sh: Kill off remaining CONFIG_SH_KGDB bits. 2008-12-22 18:44:05 +09:00
sound ALSA: pcm - Add logging of hwptr updates and interrupt updates 2009-07-23 11:09:03 +02:00
sparc sparc: Remove Documentation/sparc/sbus_drivers.txt 2008-08-29 02:15:25 -07:00
spi spi: new spi->mode bits 2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
sysctl vmscan: properly account for the number of page cache pages zone_reclaim() can reclaim 2009-06-16 19:47:45 -07:00
telephony remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation 2008-07-22 19:24:29 +10:00
thermal thermal: update the documentation 2008-04-29 02:49:47 -04:00
timers trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
trace debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem. 2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
uml
usb trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc 2009-06-12 18:01:51 +02:00
video4linux V4L/DVB (12283): gspca - sn9c20x: New subdriver for sn9c201 and sn9c202 bridges. 2009-07-24 14:03:30 -03:00
vm Documentation/vm/Makefile: don't try to build slqbinfo 2009-06-17 09:45:46 -07:00
w1 w1: send status messages after command processing 2009-01-08 08:31:14 -08:00
watchdog [WATCHDOG] hpwdt: Add NMI priority option 2009-06-23 07:13:45 +00:00
wimax i2400m: documentation and instructions for usage 2009-01-07 10:00:18 -08:00
x86 Doc: move Documentation/exception.txt into x86 subdir 2009-07-10 19:10:32 -07:00
zh_CN Chinese: add translation of Codingstyle 2008-01-24 20:40:04 -08:00
00-INDEX trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to 2009-03-30 15:22:02 +02:00
applying-patches.txt
atomic_ops.txt Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: fix sample code 2009-06-16 19:47:52 -07:00
bad_memory.txt Document handling of bad memory 2008-12-03 16:09:53 -07:00
basic_profiling.txt
binfmt_misc.txt
braille-console.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
bt8xxgpio.txt gpio: add bt8xxgpio driver 2008-07-25 10:53:30 -07:00
BUG-HUNTING Documentation: add hint about call traces & module symbols to BUG-HUNTING 2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
c2port.txt Add c2 port support 2008-11-12 17:17:18 -08:00
cachetlb.txt remove unused flush_tlb_pgtables 2007-10-19 11:53:34 -07:00
Changes Documentation/Changes: perl is needed to build the kernel 2009-06-18 13:03:46 -07:00
CodingStyle trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments. 2009-06-12 18:01:46 +02:00
cpu-hotplug.txt x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed 2008-12-18 12:08:05 +01:00
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt cpumask: Use topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask() 2009-01-11 19:12:49 +01:00
credentials.txt CRED: Documentation 2008-11-14 10:39:26 +11:00
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt Documentation: Clarify when module debugging actually works. 2008-02-03 15:27:38 +02:00
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt firewire: fw-ohci: add option for remote debugging 2008-04-18 17:55:33 +02:00
dell_rbu.txt trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos 2009-06-12 18:01:50 +02:00
devices.txt lanana: assign a device name and numbering for MAX3100 2009-04-07 08:44:05 -07:00
DMA-API.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
DMA-attributes.txt powerpc/cell: Add DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING dma attribute and use in Cell IOMMU code 2008-07-22 10:39:36 +10:00
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
DMA-mapping.txt dma-mapping: update the old macro DMA_nBIT_MASK related documentations 2009-04-07 08:31:12 -07:00
dmaengine.txt async_tx, dmaengine: document channel allocation and api rework 2009-01-05 18:10:19 -07:00
dontdiff dontdiff: Fix asm exclude 2009-03-26 15:45:43 -07:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt Dynamic debug: allow simple quoting of words 2009-03-24 16:38:27 -07:00
edac.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
eisa.txt
email-clients.txt Documentation/email-clients.txt: add some info about gmail 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
feature-removal-schedule.txt sound: make OSS device number claiming optional and schedule its removal 2009-08-10 13:59:36 +02:00
futex-requeue-pi.txt futex: add requeue-pi documentation 2009-05-09 07:12:50 +02:00
gcov.txt gcov: fix documentation 2009-06-30 18:55:59 -07:00
gpio.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
highuid.txt [SPARC]: Remove SunOS and Solaris binary support. 2008-04-21 15:10:15 -07:00
HOWTO Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ 2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
hw_random.txt hw_random doc updates 2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
ics932s401 ics932s401: new clock generator chip driver 2008-11-12 17:17:18 -08:00
initrd.txt use the newc archive format as requested by initramfs 2008-02-03 14:54:41 +02:00
Intel-IOMMU.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt io mapping: improve documentation 2008-11-03 18:21:44 +01:00
IO-mapping.txt Documentation: move DMA-mapping.txt to Doc/PCI/ 2009-01-29 18:19:29 -08:00
iostats.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
IPMI.txt IPMI: new NMI handling 2007-10-18 14:37:32 -07:00
IRQ-affinity.txt genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3) 2008-06-05 15:18:30 +02:00
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt Documentation/java.txt: typo and grammar fixes 2007-10-20 02:37:21 +02:00
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt kernel-doc: restrict syntax for private: and public: 2009-05-02 15:36:10 -07:00
kernel-docs.txt doc: update to URL and status of kernel-docs.txt entry 2008-06-06 11:29:10 -07:00
kernel-parameters.txt Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-07-10 14:25:59 -07:00
keys-request-key.txt keys: allow the callout data to be passed as a blob rather than a string 2008-04-29 08:06:16 -07:00
keys.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
kmemcheck.txt kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck documentation 2009-06-13 14:27:20 +02:00
kmemleak.txt kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak file 2009-06-26 17:38:27 +01:00
kobject.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
kprobes.txt debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem. 2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
kref.txt docs: convert kref semaphore to mutex 2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
ldm.txt LDM: Fix for Windows Vista dynamic disks 2007-05-21 09:58:40 -07:00
leds-class.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
leds-lp3944.txt leds: LED driver for National Semiconductor LP3944 Funlight Chip 2009-06-23 20:21:38 +01:00
local_ops.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
lockdep-design.txt locking: Documentation: lockdep-design.txt, fix note of state bits 2009-04-26 18:21:24 +02:00
lockstat.txt lockstat: contend with points 2008-10-20 15:43:10 +02:00
logo.gif Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz" 2009-04-27 12:00:27 -07:00
logo.txt Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz" 2009-04-27 12:00:27 -07:00
magic-number.txt documentation: update header file paths 2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
Makefile docsrc: build Documentation/ sources 2008-08-12 16:07:30 -07:00
ManagementStyle docs: fix ManagementStyle book name 2008-10-30 11:38:46 -07:00
markers.txt markers: comment marker_synchronize_unregister() on data dependency 2008-11-28 16:47:41 +01:00
mca.txt The ps2esdi driver was marked as BROKEN more than two years ago due to being 2008-03-17 09:03:05 +01:00
md.txt Documentation/md.txt update 2009-03-31 15:18:37 +11:00
memory-barriers.txt sched: Document memory barriers implied by sleep/wake-up primitives 2009-04-29 14:15:55 +02:00
memory-hotplug.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
memory.txt
mono.txt
mutex-design.txt Documentation: Add nested versions of mutex locks to docs 2007-10-20 00:15:26 +02:00
nmi_watchdog.txt x86, nmi-watchdog: update procfs nmi_watchdog file documentation v2 2008-10-30 19:07:04 +01:00
nommu-mmap.txt NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable. 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
numastat.txt
oops-tracing.txt Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition) 2008-04-29 08:05:59 -07:00
parport-lowlevel.txt plip: fix parport_register_device name parameter 2007-11-26 19:39:01 -08:00
parport.txt
pi-futex.txt
pnp.txt Documentation: Replace obsolete "driverfs" with "sysfs". 2008-01-24 20:40:04 -08:00
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt DOC: add printk-formats.txt 2008-11-12 17:17:17 -08:00
prio_tree.txt
rbtree.txt trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
rfkill.txt rfkill: export persistent attribute in sysfs 2009-06-19 11:50:18 -04:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt futex: documentation: fix inconsistent description of futex list_op_pending 2009-06-18 13:03:56 -07:00
robust-futexes.txt
rt-mutex-design.txt
rt-mutex.txt
rtc.txt rtc: cleanup example code 2008-02-06 10:41:14 -08:00
SAK.txt Remove Andrew Morton's old email accounts 2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
SecurityBugs
SELinux.txt selinux: add support for installing a dummy policy (v2) 2008-08-27 08:54:08 +10:00
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
sgi-visws.txt
slow-work.txt Document the slow work thread pool 2009-04-03 16:42:35 +01:00
SM501.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
Smack.txt smack: implement logging V3 2009-04-14 09:00:23 +10:00
sparse.txt Documentation: explain the difference between __bitwise and __bitwise__ 2009-04-11 08:18:11 +02:00
spinlocks.txt Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txt 2008-04-11 13:21:14 -06:00
stable_api_nonsense.txt stable_api_nonsense.txt: Disambiguate the use of "this" by using "that" to refer to the syscall interface 2007-07-30 14:25:12 -07:00
stable_kernel_rules.txt Update stable tree documentation 2008-10-29 15:03:49 -07:00
SubmitChecklist block: rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF 2009-06-19 08:08:50 +02:00
SubmittingDrivers Remove Andrew Morton's old email accounts 2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
SubmittingPatches Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-06-14 13:46:25 -07:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt Doc/sysfs-rules: Swap the order of the words so the sentence makes more sense 2009-05-08 19:22:20 -07:00
sysrq.txt sysrq, kdump: make sysrq-c consistent 2009-07-29 19:10:36 -07:00
tomoyo.txt tomoyo: add Documentation/tomoyo.txt 2009-04-14 09:14:58 +10:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol 2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
VGA-softcursor.txt
video-output.txt
volatile-considered-harmful.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
voyager.txt
zorro.txt