Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!
> > 
> > Soft mixing is actually the biggest issue because if you had
> > generalized soft-mixing in the kernel-visible audio ports[1] you would
> > win two things:
> > 
> > - programs could use the OSS API without interfering with the ALSA one
> >   or which each other
> 
> This works with aoss.
> 
> If people often run into this problem it might make sense to deprecate 
> the in-kernel OSS emulation and point people to the userspace emulation 
> instead?

Without in-kernel OSS emulation, it is very hard to verify if kernel
sound support works properly. OSS could been driven from shell for
testing, and I believe that's still important feature to keep.

							Pavel
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