On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 08:43 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 05:29:26PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> >> Even if you reject this argument, the bug is in ALSA's in-kernel OSS
> >> emulation, not the emu10k1 driver.
> >
> > That's irrelevant. You can't remove the oss emu10k1 driver in favor
> > of alsa's until alsa provides an equivalent interface. That's a basic
> > compatibility requirement.
> >
> >
> >> ALSA's in-kernel OSS emulation does not have these features and
> >> never will.
> >
> > "Never" is terribly long.
> >
> > OG.
>
> "Never" probably only means terribly long. :-)
>
> If one takes the ALSA todo list, that is massive (it is so long in fact,
> that we have not had time to write it all down!), sort it by priority,
> then divide by the amount of ALSA developers time available, for this
> particular feature, the time to implementation is getting very close to
> "Never".
The reason I say "never" is because it would either require moving
alsa-lib into the kernel (long ago rejected), or devising some system to
redirect operations on /dev/dsp back into userspace to alsa-lib. It
seems insane for the audio path to be
userspace->kernel->userspace->kernel and I'm pretty sure this idea was
also rejected a while back.
Lee
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