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

Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-25T14:44:48Z

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 07:51:38PM +0200, Tomasz K?oczko wrote:
>
> Few dayas ago OSS source code was oppened uder CDDL for Solaris and GLPv2
> for Linux:
>
> http://www.opensound.com/press/2007/oss-gpl-cddl.txt
>
> So this source without problems code can be integragrated in Linus tree
> and after this Linux can provide much better soud supoport than
> with current ALSA.
>
> Any plans for doing this ?

In my experience OSS is a pile of crap compared to ALSA. The only thing
it has ever had was support for sound chips that requried an NDA to get
the specs.

Keep alsa, but possibly add support to alsa for whichever devices are
missing support.

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Len Sorensen