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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:44:42PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:31:08PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > So, do you mean the soft-mixing is the biggest issue?  That's just a
> > part of a design issue, and if we want to go to that way, the
> > impelemtation would be trivial, regardless on ALSA or not.  Totally 
> > irrelevant argument regarding "remove ALSA".
> 
> Soft mixing is actually the biggest issue because if you had
> generalized soft-mixing in the kernel-visible audio ports[1] you would
> win two things:
> 
> - programs could use the OSS API without interfering with the ALSA one
>   or which each other

This works with aoss.

If people often run into this problem it might make sense to deprecate 
the in-kernel OSS emulation and point people to the userspace emulation 
instead?

> - programs coult use the ALSA kernel API directly without interfering
>   either, which would allow alternative libalsa implementations for
>   those who hate the current one
>...

Allowing for some hypothetical implementation noone might ever write is 
not sucha strong point...

>   OG.
>...

cu
Adrian

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