Re: OSS: cleanup or throw away

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 17:06:46 EST


On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:59:21PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:22:21PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> >...
> > I've seen
> > multiple bug reports of cards that work with OSS and don't work with
> > ALSA (and vice versa), so keeping both seems the proper thing to
> >...
>
> Wouldn't it be better to get the ALSA drivers working in such cases?

It would; but until they do, ditching OSS is a regression.

> It's really not a good idea to have two codebases for the same
> purpose.

It is if neither one is witholding effort from the other, and neither
one does a perfect job for all cases.

Cheers,
Muli
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