Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 20:04 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:54:45 -0500,
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 19:28 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:22:23PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 18:46 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > > 3. no ALSA drivers for the same hardware
> > > > > 
> > > > > SOUND_SB 
> > > > 
> > > > ALSA certainly does support "100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64,
> > > > ESS, Jazz16)", it would be a joke if it didn't...
> > > 
> > > That's not the problem, I should have added an explanation:
> > > 
> > > SOUND_SB (due to SOUND_KAHLUA and SOUND_PAS)
> > > 
> > 
> > Hmm.  From sound/oss/kahlua.c:
> > 
> > /*
> >  *      Initialisation code for Cyrix/NatSemi VSA1 softaudio
> >  *
> >  *      (C) Copyright 2003 Red Hat Inc <alan@redhat.com>
> >  *
> > 
> > Why was a new OSS driver written and accepted at such a late date, when
> > OSS was already deprecated?
> 
> You'll find out that it must be pretty easy to write kahlua driver for
> ALSA, too, if you look at kahlua.c.  Just need a hardware to certify
> if this is really demanded...

Yes, it looks simple enough to write a driver without the hardware, as
long as someone volunteers to test it...

Lee