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SubjectRe: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?
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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