Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Jul 2006 18:01:23 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round |
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 06:31:14PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 05:13:02PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >- ALSA #1735 (OSS emulation 4-channel mode rear channels not working) > > > > As the MAINTAINER of EMU10K1, I am happy for EMU10K1 driver to be > > removed from the kernel. > > > > ALSA #1735 is now closed. All the apps the user was trying also support > > ALSA natively now, so OSS is not needed. > > Are you joking ?
Besides what was already mentioned in this thread, let me add some points: - most Linux applications already support ALSA - kernel 2.6.0 with ALSA as default sound system was released in 2003 - the ALSA developers provide an in-kernel OSS emulation - the ALSA developers provide an alternative user space OSS emulation - there are many new soundcards without any OSS driver at all [1]
Compatibility is important, and it's nearly always working (e.g. "aoss audacity" works for me perfectly).
There are only few exotic cornercases like ALSA #1735 where a subset of the OSS functionality is not working in the OSS emulation - and I doubt it would be worth putting much effort into fixing such cornercases.
> OG.
cu Adrian
[1] we are talking about the in-kernel OSS drivers, not the commercial OSS
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