Re: [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 17:29 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 18:31 +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 05:13:02PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > > Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > >- ALSA #1735 (OSS emulation 4-channel mode rear channels not working)
> > > 
> > > As the MAINTAINER of EMU10K1, I am happy for EMU10K1 driver to be 
> > > removed from the kernel.
> > > 
> > > ALSA #1735 is now closed. All the apps the user was trying also support 
> > > ALSA natively now, so OSS is not needed.
> > 
> > Are you joking ?
> > 
> 
> Even if you reject this argument, the bug is in ALSA's in-kernel OSS
> emulation, not the emu10k1 driver.
> 
> As sound hardware gets dumber and cheaper, kernel OSS emulation will
> become increasingly useless.  The cheap onboard devices (and even mid
> range stuff like the SBLive! 24 bit) require sample rate conversion,
> mixing, and even volume control to be handled in software.  ALSA's
> in-kernel OSS emulation does not have these features and never will.
> 
> (I wish the authors of Skype, Flash, TeamSpeak, Enemy Territory, and
> other proprietary OSS-only apps would understand this ;-)


maybe it's time to start printing a warning to users of OSS api (rate
limited etc etc)


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