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Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round (v2)
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 01:50 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> writes:
> > 
> > Q: What about the OSS emulation in ALSA?
> > A: The OSS emulation in ALSA is not affected by my patches
> >    (and it's not in any way scheduled for removal).
> 
> I again object to removing the old ICH sound driver.
> It does the same as the Alsa driver in much less code and is ideal
> for generic monolithic kernels

It doesn't do the same thing - software mixing is impossible with OSS.

Lee