Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:38:09 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal |
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>It strikes me that it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Vendors are still >releasing applications on Linux that support only OSS, partly due to >ignorance, but mostly because ALSA's OSS compatibility layer allows them to >lazily ignore the ALSA API and target all cards, old and new. > >Additionally, we can't get rid of OSS compatibility until pretty much all >hardware has an ALSA driver, and (inferred from your comment) we can't get >rid of OSS drivers until nothing supports OSS, because the whole of the ALSA >stuff is a bit larger... > By OSS compatibility, do you mean the OSS PCM emulation layer (/dev/dsp)? I think that should be kept. That way, legacy apps keep working, especially unmaintained binary-only things like Unreal Tournament 1.
The OSS emulation does not depend on the OSS tree (CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME), so I cannot quite follow your second paragraph - we should not remove OSS compat. anytime.
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