Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:17:50 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? |
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 12:18:05AM +0300, Hannu Savolainen wrote: >... > What we would like to push is that the old "deprecated" OSS/Free are > removed from the kernel. OSS/Free is based on about years old OSS API > version which was too limited for many applications. Having OSS/Free in the > kernel doesn't serve any purpose.
I am slowly removing all parts of the in-kernel OSS with ALSA drivers for the same hardware.
The remaining drivers can roughly be divided into two categories: - some ISA cards not supported by ALSA - some drivers for unusual hardware (read: not a PC) not supported by ALSA
As long as we don't have ALSA drivers for them (which might in some cases never happen) I'd prefer to keep them for now.
> Also we would like to stop the silly OSS vs ALSA war. OSS and ALSA are > rather different. Both of them have some good points and bad points. For > ordinary users it doesn't matter which API is used by the applications as > long as they work. Just the application developers can see the real > difference. Some of them prefer OSS while some other prefer ALSA and this > should be their "freedom of choice". >...
I'm glad to hear this. :-)
> Best regards, > > Hannu
cu Adrian
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