Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round | | From | Lee Revell <> | | Date | Sat, 01 Jul 2006 09:52:40 -0400 |
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On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 08:43 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Olivier Galibert wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 05:29:26PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > >> Even if you reject this argument, the bug is in ALSA's in-kernel OSS > >> emulation, not the emu10k1 driver. > > > > That's irrelevant. You can't remove the oss emu10k1 driver in favor > > of alsa's until alsa provides an equivalent interface. That's a basic > > compatibility requirement. > > > > > >> ALSA's in-kernel OSS emulation does not have these features and > >> never will. > > > > "Never" is terribly long. > > > > OG. > > "Never" probably only means terribly long. :-) > > If one takes the ALSA todo list, that is massive (it is so long in fact, > that we have not had time to write it all down!), sort it by priority, > then divide by the amount of ALSA developers time available, for this > particular feature, the time to implementation is getting very close to > "Never".
The reason I say "never" is because it would either require moving alsa-lib into the kernel (long ago rejected), or devising some system to redirect operations on /dev/dsp back into userspace to alsa-lib. It seems insane for the audio path to be userspace->kernel->userspace->kernel and I'm pretty sure this idea was also rejected a while back.
Lee
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