Re: OSS driver removal, 2nd round

[Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> İsmail Dönmez wrote:
> 
>> Cumartesi 1 Temmuz 2006 00:56 tarihinde, Lee Revell şunları yazmıştı:
>>
>>> On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 00:42 +0300, İsmail Dönmez wrote:
>>>
>>>> Cumartesi 1 Temmuz 2006 00:29 tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız:
>>>>
>>>>> (I wish the authors of Skype, Flash, TeamSpeak, Enemy Territory, and
>>>>> other proprietary OSS-only apps would understand this ;-)
>>>>
>>>> New skype beta supports Alsa, doesn't work ATM but its a great step in
>>>> that direction and Flash9 for Linux will use Alsa.
>>>
>>> Really?  Got a link?  Last I heard about Flash was that their lawyers
>>> won't let them link to LGPL libraries which would rule out ALSA support.
>>
>>
>> Hear from the lead developer for Flash Linux :
>> http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/06/week_in_review_1.html
>>
> Is that right? After years of negative comments about Flash and OSS, as
> soon as it's converted to ALSA v1 api that going out in 2.6.18?
> 

Actually I think you're mixing stuff up ?

It's being written for v4l v1 api which is being phased out with 2.6.18.

They already have alsa working (and from the sound of it it's working
great!).

v4l != alsa. :)

// Stefan

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