Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:39:08 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? |
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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.
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