Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

Alan Cox
2007-06-25T09:00:34Z

> If it is native ALSA driver then it will restart after each underrun
> and overrun. It is the applications job to do this, alsa-lib provides
> all support for this. I have no idea of OSS and OSS emulation in ALSA.

OSS should autorestart on underrun and just moan about overruns and drop
bits. So if it's not following that behaviour he is IMHO correct for the
OSS emulation case.