Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello,

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Thanks for info.  Just a quick glance, CUSE looks like a good
> abstraction for this kind of things.
> 
> I've been thinking that the tunneling to an OSS-emulation daemon would
> be the best way, too, and I actually made a similar hack (not based on
> FUSE but own kernel module).
> 
> It was presented in SUSE Labs conference a few years ago.  And the
> reaction by audience at that time was what Adrian showed -- why do we
> need such a complexity at all?  Well, as long as we have OSS API and
> its applications, we should keep supporting them in a good form.
> 
> Anyway, my implementation at that time was too hackish and I gave up
> soon.  If it can be implemented in a generic framework like CUSE,
> it's a good chance to merge to the upstream.
> 
> One thing I couldn't find in your code is the mmap support.
> The mmap support is crucial for some apps, typically used for games.
> Am I missing something?

mmap is essential for some apps?  Aiee... I was hoping to skip that one
after reading strong discouragement against it in the OSS programming
manual from 4front.

Adding it shouldn't be too difficult.  I'll give it a shot after other
stuff settles down.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun