On 06/28/2007 11:06 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
The interesting point is that what you call "internal implementation
details" is much _more_ exposed with the OSS emulation in the kernel
_enabled_.
Why?
Linux software not supporting ALSA has becoming quite esoteric.
But software like mplayer supporting both and trying OSS first and
software supporting both and letting the user choose is today much more
common. And that's exactly the case where users run into the results of
the "internal implementation detail" that their application used the
in-kernel OSS emulation instead of ALSA resulting in exactly these
problems.
There is also a userspace OSS emulation for ALSA not suffering from these
problems.
It's not my decision whether or not to remove the in-kernel OSS
emulation, all I'm saying is that removing it might actually result in
less users having problems.
For what it's worth -- I do agree with this...
Rene.
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