From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751690AbWADLNb (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 06:13:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751247AbWADLNb (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 06:13:31 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:27789 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751244AbWADLNa (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 06:13:30 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:13:00 -0800 From: Pete Zaitcev To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zaitcev@redhat.com, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <20060104031300.270541d9.zaitcev@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <200601031347.19328.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <200601031452.10855.ak@suse.de> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.4 (GTK+ 2.8.9; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:01:40 +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > Is multiple-source mixing really a "high end" requirement? When I last > checked, the OSS driver didn't support multiple applications claiming it at > once, thus requiring you to use "more bloat" like esound, arts, or some other > crap to access your soundcard more than once at any given time. If ALSA's OSS emulator does not support mixing properly, it's a bug in ALSA, clearly, because real OSS in 2.4 allowed for mixing, as long as the hardware supported it. I played Doom while listening to MP3s on ymfpci (which, in fact, was a copy of ALSA's ymfpci with OSS API on top). If ALSA developers wanted, they could have supported mixing in their OSS emulator. They intentionally chose not to, in order to create an incentive for developers to program in native ALSA. -- Pete