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    SubjectRe: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?
    On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:44:42PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
    > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:31:08PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
    > > So, do you mean the soft-mixing is the biggest issue? That's just a
    > > part of a design issue, and if we want to go to that way, the
    > > impelemtation would be trivial, regardless on ALSA or not. Totally
    > > irrelevant argument regarding "remove ALSA".
    >
    > 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?

    > - programs coult use the ALSA kernel API directly without interfering
    > either, which would allow alternative libalsa implementations for
    > those who hate the current one
    >...

    Allowing for some hypothetical implementation noone might ever write is
    not sucha strong point...

    > OG.
    >...

    cu
    Adrian

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