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

Florian Schmidt
2007-07-01T11:47:13Z

On Friday 29 June 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > > Not as if it would be hard to add ioctl support to fuse. What fuse
> > > > can't handle is the data argument of ioctl(), so the most it could do
> > > > is give the filesystem a pid (tid) and a virtual address. The
> > > > userspace fs could then get/put the data through /proc/<pid>/mem.
> > >
> > > Hork...
> > >
> > > Identify the generic ioctls that are relevant to a FUSE file system and
> > > have real meaning *and* are useful.
> >
> > I don't think there are any such.
> >
> > The point in this thread was I think about emulating an OSS sound
> > device through a fuse fs. In that case fuse would need _generic_
> > ioctl support, which simply can't be done without weird userspace
> > hacks.
>
> Well, had a look at what FUSD does. It assumes that the ioctl
> argument is stuctured according to the command. If all OSS ioctls are
> like that, then fine, fuse can support it properly.
>
> The drawback of this is that ioctls which aren't structured properly
> could cause weird failures due to wrong data being accessed by the
> poor unknowing kernel.
>
> Miklos

Included with the docs there's a list of the OSS ioctls. I don't understand
enough of the problem to judge whether they are suitable to be handled by
FUSE:

http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/ioctl.html [version 4]
http://www.4front-tech.com/pguide/oss.pdf [version 3]

I don't know which API version is supposed to be supported though.

Regards,
Flo

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