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From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 02:03:35 +0000
Subject: Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity
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To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 03:32:27PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Yes, it's a known problem to be fixed.  But, it's no excuse to do
> _everything_ in the kernel (which OSS requires).

OSS does not require to do anything in the kernel except an entry
point.


> And if the application doesn't support, who and where converts it?
> With OSS API, it's a job of the kernel.

Once again no.  Nothing prevents the kernel to forward the data to
userland daemons depending on a userspace-uploaded configuration.

  OG.