From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Torcz Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:13:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <20060103221314.GB23175@irc.pl> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU" List-Id: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <200601031522.06898.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103160502.GB5262@irc.pl> <200601031629.21765.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103170316.GA12249@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20060103203732.GF5262@irc.pl> <9a8748490601031256x916bddav794fecdcf263fb55@mail.gmail.com> <20060103215654.GH3831@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20060103215654.GH3831@stusta.de> To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Jesper Juhl , Takashi Iwai , Olivier Galibert , Alistair John Strachan , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, kyle@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:56:54PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > Well, we keep the compatibility exactly -- OSS drivers don't supp= ort > > > > > software mixing in the kernel, too :) > > > > > > > > OSS will support software mixing. In kernel. On NetBSD. > > > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/4388 > > > > > > Why do we need to keep the compatibility with NetBSD? > > > > > Software mixing is a really nice feature for people with soundscards > > that can't do hardware mixing, so if the OSS compatibility could > > transparently do software mixing for apps using OSS api that would be > > a very nice extension for a lot of people - I'd say that if NetBSD do > > that they've got the right idea. >=20 > The OSS compatibility in ALSA is only a legacy API for applications not= =20 > yet converted to use the ALSA API. OSS is universal cross-unix API. ALSA is Linux-only. --=20 Tomasz Torcz There exists no separation between gods and men: zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl one blends softly casual into the other. --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: gpg --search-keys Tomasz Torcz iD8DBQFDuvb6ThhlKowQALQRAoXfAJ9aAPT8GDVP1705lihGUfTWFVaNlwCfVAti 2FrHucsItUoX+dzqTc9Fe7U= =vPrv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU--