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

Jesper Juhl
2007-06-24T22:48:53Z

On 25/06/07, Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:57:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Sory Alan but I don't want philosophical/historical discuss.
> > > Try to answer on question "ALSA or OSS ?" using *only* technical arguments.
> >
> > We dropped OSS for ALSA for technical reasons. Those being that ALSA
> > - has a better audio API
> > - is more flexible
> > - provides OSS as emulation
> > - supports more hardware
>
> I sent a patch to the ALSA developers 4 years ago.
> It was never included in the kernel :/
>
Did you try resending it?
Sometimes patches get missed, overlooked, dropped on the floor by mistake etc.

[snip]
>
> My (four year old) patch can be found here:
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/alsa/index.html
>
> I STILL think that ALSA should restart the stream after an underrun,
> but I am not someone who asks twice :p usually.
>
When it comes to getting patches into mainline, asking twice (or more)
is sometimes required, and it's considered your responsability as
submitter to resend a patch if noone reacts to it the first time
around.

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