From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752522AbXGGW2N (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jul 2007 18:28:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751861AbXGGW1i (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jul 2007 18:27:38 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:4572 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751745AbXGGW1h (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jul 2007 18:27:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:39:08 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Olivier Galibert , Takashi Iwai , Tomasz K?oczko , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? Message-ID: <20070629183907.GB3861@ucw.cz> References: <20070624200837.16e11305@the-village.bc.nu> <20070624215724.025a5de5@the-village.bc.nu> <20070625124442.GA44019@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20070625132107.GD1094@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070625132107.GD1094@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > > Soft mixing is actually the biggest issue because if you had > > generalized soft-mixing in the kernel-visible audio ports[1] you would > > win two things: > > > > - programs could use the OSS API without interfering with the ALSA one > > or which each other > > This works with aoss. > > If people often run into this problem it might make sense to deprecate > the in-kernel OSS emulation and point people to the userspace emulation > instead? Without in-kernel OSS emulation, it is very hard to verify if kernel sound support works properly. OSS could been driven from shell for testing, and I believe that's still important feature to keep. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html