Re: [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round

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

On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 08:43 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 05:29:26PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> >> Even if you reject this argument, the bug is in ALSA's in-kernel OSS
> >> emulation, not the emu10k1 driver.
> > 
> > That's irrelevant.  You can't remove the oss emu10k1 driver in favor
> > of alsa's until alsa provides an equivalent interface.  That's a basic
> > compatibility requirement.
> > 
> > 
> >> ALSA's in-kernel OSS emulation does not have these features and
> >> never will.
> > 
> > "Never" is terribly long.
> > 
> >   OG.
> 
> "Never" probably only means terribly long. :-)
> 
> If one takes the ALSA todo list, that is massive (it is so long in fact,
> that we have not had time to write it all down!), sort it by priority,
> then divide by the amount of ALSA developers time available, for this
> particular feature, the time to implementation is getting very close to
> "Never".

The reason I say "never" is because it would either require moving
alsa-lib into the kernel (long ago rejected), or devising some system to
redirect operations on /dev/dsp back into userspace to alsa-lib.  It
seems insane for the audio path to be
userspace->kernel->userspace->kernel and I'm pretty sure this idea was
also rejected a while back.

Lee