Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:37:49 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? |
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On 06/28/2007 11:06 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The interesting point is that what you call "internal implementation > details" is much _more_ exposed with the OSS emulation in the kernel > _enabled_. > > Why? > > Linux software not supporting ALSA has becoming quite esoteric. > > But software like mplayer supporting both and trying OSS first and > software supporting both and letting the user choose is today much more > common. And that's exactly the case where users run into the results of > the "internal implementation detail" that their application used the > in-kernel OSS emulation instead of ALSA resulting in exactly these > problems. > > There is also a userspace OSS emulation for ALSA not suffering from these > problems. > > It's not my decision whether or not to remove the in-kernel OSS > emulation, all I'm saying is that removing it might actually result in > less users having problems.
For what it's worth -- I do agree with this...
Rene.
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