Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:21:07 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? |
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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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