From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263201AbTGRQTT (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:19:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271856AbTGRQSU (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:18:20 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:3083 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271869AbTGRQRm (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:17:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:25:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Davidsen To: "J.A. Magallon" cc: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.0-test1-ac2 In-Reply-To: <20030716233359.GE7263@werewolf.able.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 07.16, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Mer, 2003-07-16 at 21:13, Michael Kristensen wrote: > > > Apropos emu10k1. Why is OSS deprecated? I have tried a little to get > > > ALSA working, but it doesn't seem to work. Hint? > > > > ALSA has a lot more functionality than OSS and the API is better in many > > ways. The ALSA drivers dont have so much use and exposure so they will > > need time to shake down, but it should be worth it in the end. > > > > What I do not understand is why alsa has not gone into 2.4. > This will smooth transition to 2.6. Same as i2c. People starts using > alsa, then they switch to 2.6 and everything works. I would assume that it's time to stop backporting stuff to 2.4, leave it stable and let the new cacpabilities entice people to move to 2.6. I've had enough learning experiences with ALSA to convince me that both the code and the documentation have a few rough edges. I'd love to just be able to use sound hardware instead of fighting every system trying get the options right, find and download the right tools and software versions, recompile this and that... -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.