Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

Adrian Bunk
2006-01-03T19:37:36Z

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:24:49PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:16:13PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > This argument is basically watered down with devfs, udev, sysfs, etc. which
> > all have exactly the same issues. Should a crippled OSS API be the way
> > forward for Linux? I think not.
>
> And they're getting some real backlash because of that now. Hell,
> Linus' message was about udev in the first place.

The udev breakages might not have been nice, but OSS/ALSA is a
completely different issue:

OSS has been deprecated since ALSA was merged into the Linux kernel
_four years ago_.

And I'm only talking about removing drivers _with ALSA drivers for the
same hardware available_.

> As for the OSS API being crippled, I'd take the 3 ioctl calls you need
> to setup a simple stereo 16bits output with OSS than the 13 ALSA
> library calls anyday. Especially with the impressive lack of
> documentation you get about what the hell is a period, or what you can
> do except aborting when you get an error.
>...

For a general OSS<->ALSA discussion, you are five years too late.

> OG.

cu
Adrian

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