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

Miklos Szeredi
2007-06-29T15:01:49Z

> I suppose the best way to provide OSS emu is to use something like
> FUSD [similar to the OSS2JACK package] [1] to provide the OSS device
> files and then redirect to user space, so all ALSA pcm devices can
> be used.. Sadly FUSD doesn't really get actively developed anymore
> it seems. And FUSE can't handle ioctls.

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.

Miklos