Re: [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round (v2)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:28:10PM +0200, Adam Tlałka wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:18:19 -0400
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Only GPL'ed version has this limitation - its just not implemented because all this
> GPL'ed OSS is abandoned.
> The commercial version from www.opensound.com does input/output mixing
> in software in kernel space.
>...

When we are talking about OSS, we are talking about what is under 
sound/oss/ in the kernel sources.

The commercial OSS might be much better, but it's not relevant since 
it's not GPL'ed and therefore not a candidate for inclusion into the 
kernel.

As you said yourself, the "GPL'ed OSS is abandoned".
And ALSA is it's successor in the kernel.

cu
Adrian

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