On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:14:05PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 05:06 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > There's no reason for an ALSA driver to select an OSS legacy userspace
> > interface.
>
> Actually there is a reason. While OSS may be deprecated the OSS API is
> not - ALSA is committed to supporting it for the forseeable future. And
> as broken an interface as it is, a lot of people consider the sound
> system broken if you can't just write() to /dev/dsp and have sound come
> out.
No disagreement, but that's not the point.
SND_PCM_OSS gives an OSS API interface for userspace on top of ALSA.
ALSA drivers shouldn't care whether they are controlled directly
through ALSA or through a legacy OSS API on top of ALSA.
If someone wants to use SND_PCM_OSS that is fine, but the ALSA interface
to my saa7134 card is working fine, so why does it force me to compile a
legacy OSS API interface into the kernel?
> Lee
cu
Adrian
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