Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:13:51 +0100 | | From | Joern Nettingsmeier <> | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal |
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Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > Also more than four years exist another thing: generaly sound suport > in Linux kernel is broken by design. Points where it is broken: > > 1) ALSA API forces not use devices files and many things on sound > managing level are handled on user space library. This dissallow <snip> > 2) ALSA API is to complicated: most applications opens single sound > stream. All what system user expect it is plaing sound by more then <snip> > 3) ALSA kernel architecture is to complicated. This main reason why > configuring sound on Linux is SO COMPLICATED. From my system: <snip> > ALSA is also requires much more bigger code size than OSS variant > (count all snd* modules size, jackd and libasound and compare this > with OSS modules and user space OSS library size). Simillar is on <snip>
oh yeah. why is linux so fscking big? my olde msdos would fit on one floppy. whiiine.
what a load of crap. alsa is a serious architecture meant for serious, maximally efficient usage with all kinds of (wildly different) hardware.
desktop stuff and "you have mail" beeps are a fscking corner case.
this is like whining about the oh so complex networking infrastructure and iptables and constantly reminiscing how simple it used to be to set up a modem on /dev/ttyS0.
get real.
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