Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:47:10 +0200 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE |
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Hello,
Takashi Iwai wrote: > Thanks for info. Just a quick glance, CUSE looks like a good > abstraction for this kind of things. > > I've been thinking that the tunneling to an OSS-emulation daemon would > be the best way, too, and I actually made a similar hack (not based on > FUSE but own kernel module). > > It was presented in SUSE Labs conference a few years ago. And the > reaction by audience at that time was what Adrian showed -- why do we > need such a complexity at all? Well, as long as we have OSS API and > its applications, we should keep supporting them in a good form. > > Anyway, my implementation at that time was too hackish and I gave up > soon. If it can be implemented in a generic framework like CUSE, > it's a good chance to merge to the upstream. > > One thing I couldn't find in your code is the mmap support. > The mmap support is crucial for some apps, typically used for games. > Am I missing something?
mmap is essential for some apps? Aiee... I was hoping to skip that one after reading strong discouragement against it in the OSS programming manual from 4front.
Adding it shouldn't be too difficult. I'll give it a shot after other stuff settles down.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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