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SubjectRe: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?
Hi!
> >
> > Soft mixing is actually the biggest issue because if you had
> > generalized soft-mixing in the kernel-visible audio ports[1] you would
> > win two things:
> >
> > - programs could use the OSS API without interfering with the ALSA one
> > or which each other
>
> This works with aoss.
>
> If people often run into this problem it might make sense to deprecate
> the in-kernel OSS emulation and point people to the userspace emulation
> instead?

Without in-kernel OSS emulation, it is very hard to verify if kernel
sound support works properly. OSS could been driven from shell for
testing, and I believe that's still important feature to keep.

Pavel
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