Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Dec 2001 09:35:38 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: OSS driver cleanups. |
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Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, John Gluck wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Out of curiosity, will ALSA also be available on the 24..xx kernels?? > > Will there be a choice of useing OSS or ALSA?? > > Will the ALSA drivers be the 0.9 series or the old 0.5 series??? AFAIK they > > are very very different in architecture. > > > > I welcome the use of ALSA, as it appears to be a more flexibile solution and > > can be used with OSS compatibility from an application point of view. My only > > concern is that there is a potential for looseing support for some sound > > cards. > > I doubt ALSA will get into 2.4 since its maintenance only, but i'm not the > final authority on this ;) Also when ALSA starts getting incorporated > into the kernel, they will use their more upto date tree, i would > presume, so they wouldn't start at 0.5. But as everyone else says, i'm > sure we'll be backporting fixes and perhaps even additional card support > into 2.4-OSS as they appear.
IMHO ALSA should -never- go into 2.4. It's fine as a patch but 2.5 is the time for big merges, and since it's already available for 2.4 outside the kernel there shouldn't be any need for backporting
Jeff
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