From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47825) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmF3p-0002Im-By for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 04:43:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmEy4-0005Ee-GS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 04:37:10 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:47660) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmEy4-0005Al-Aj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 04:37:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:36:57 +0000 From: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= Message-ID: <20190123093657.GC27270@redhat.com> Reply-To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= References: <20190123080005.31078-1-kraxel@redhat.com> <20190123080005.31078-5-kraxel@redhat.com> <484e921f-7cee-755d-12a9-02e8bf182fa4@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <484e921f-7cee-755d-12a9-02e8bf182fa4@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] [RfC] audio: probe audio drivers by default List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Thomas Huth Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Philippe =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , Brad Smith On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:27:48AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 2019-01-23 09:00, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > > This is RfC because we might look at the ordering. On linux we probably > > want prefer alsa over oss. > Yes, please! I've run into the trap a couple of times already: OSS > headers were available, but these days the OSS compatibility kernel > modules are not loaded anymore by default. So you compile QEMU with OSS > support and then wonder why you do not get any audio output at all... > > IMHO we should put OSS as last item in the list on Linux nowadays. Given our targetted platform list[1], are there even any platforms where we would *not* have alsa, but still have OSS ? If not, then we could just drop the OSS driver entirely on the ground that it is obsolete. Regards, Daniel [1] https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Supported-build-platforms -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|