Re: OSS driver cleanups.

Zwane Mwaikambo
2001-12-04T09:46:58Z

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, John Gluck wrote:

> Hi
>
> Out of curiosity, will ALSA also be available on the 24..xx kernels??
> Will there be a choice of useing OSS or ALSA??
> Will the ALSA drivers be the 0.9 series or the old 0.5 series??? AFAIK they
> are very very different in architecture.
>
> I welcome the use of ALSA, as it appears to be a more flexibile solution and
> can be used with OSS compatibility from an application point of view. My only
> concern is that there is a potential for looseing support for some sound
> cards.

I doubt ALSA will get into 2.4 since its maintenance only, but i'm not the
final authority on this ;) Also when ALSA starts getting incorporated
into the kernel, they will use their more upto date tree, i would
presume, so they wouldn't start at 0.5. But as everyone else says, i'm
sure we'll be backporting fixes and perhaps even additional card support
into 2.4-OSS as they appear.

Cheers,
Zwane Mwaikambo