On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:03:24PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:53:57 +0100, Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:38:58PM +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> > >...
> > > >We can always undo mistakes later, but
> > > >we'll never get to that point if we don't start moving in one direction
> > > >instead of ten.
> > >
> > > You were right if there were ten, but there seem to be only two at the
> > > moment. One stack will survive and one will die. There's no point in
> > > deciding this now.
> >
> > No, we'll end up with two stacks, some drivers using the first stack and
> > some the second one.
> >
> > You can't simply let one stack die because this would imply either
> > rewriting all drivers using this stack or dropping support for some
> > hardware.
>
> So, you don't want to remove OSS drivers anymore, I take it.
> Can't let bad stacks die!
There are OSS drivers in the kernel that support hardware not supported
by ALSA.
> -- Pete
cu
Adrian
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