From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Bortas Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:57:43 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <7e5f60720601050157p2e8e077eg45d6e666bb5ceeb6@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: References: <200601031522.06898.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103215654.GH3831@stusta.de> <20060103221314.GB23175@irc.pl> <20060103231009.GI3831@stusta.de> <43BB16C0.3080308@stesmi.com> <43BB9A0B.3010209@stesmi.com> <7e5f60720601041903s3462bf9bib9ada16fe70ef988@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Stefan Smietanowski , =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tomasz_K=B3oczko?= , Adrian Bunk , Jesper Juhl , Takashi Iwai , Olivier Galibert , Alistair John Strachan , 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 On 1/5/06, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >No. Everything on Solaris uses the Solaris native sound API except for > >possibly quick-hack ports of applications from Linux. Doing anything > >else would as you say be insane and break things like device > >redirection on Sunrays. > > > Device redirection is just "writing to a different /dev node" - on > Solaris and Linux. IIRC, the API is the same. Correct. Rederection to $AUDIODEVICE that is a normal /dev/audio.