From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758962AbXGDGfr (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 02:35:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754545AbXGDGfk (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 02:35:40 -0400 Received: from mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net ([167.206.4.198]:37106 "EHLO mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753754AbXGDGfk (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 02:35:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:35:39 -0400 From: Darren Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? In-reply-to: To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tomasz_K=B3oczko?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <468B3FBB.9050006@da4.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tomasz Kłoczko 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 ? > > kloczek I know this may sound kind of stupid, but how about not deprecating either, and fully supporting both sound systems? Maybe we can get them to work together, and the distro or user can choose whether they would like to use alsa or oss for that particular card (or have the distro choose the sound drivers that are best supported for that particular card). As it is now, most apps already support oss and alsa.