Re: [2.6 patch] VIDEO_SAA7134_ALSA shouldn't select SND_PCM_OSS

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

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 05:33 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:14:05PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 05:06 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > There's no reason for an ALSA driver to select an OSS legacy userspace 
> > > interface.
> > 
> > Actually there is a reason.  While OSS may be deprecated the OSS API is
> > not - ALSA is committed to supporting it for the forseeable future.  And
> > as broken an interface as it is, a lot of people consider the sound
> > system broken if you can't just write() to /dev/dsp and have sound come
> > out.
> 
> No disagreement, but that's not the point.
> 
> SND_PCM_OSS gives an OSS API interface for userspace on top of ALSA.
> ALSA drivers shouldn't care whether they are controlled directly 
> through ALSA or through a legacy OSS API on top of ALSA.
> 
> If someone wants to use SND_PCM_OSS that is fine, but the ALSA interface 
> to my saa7134 card is working fine, so why does it force me to compile a 
> legacy OSS API interface into the kernel?

OK, makes sense.

Lee