Re: [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round

[James Courtier-Dutton]

Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 05:29:26PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
>> Even if you reject this argument, the bug is in ALSA's in-kernel OSS
>> emulation, not the emu10k1 driver.
> 
> That's irrelevant.  You can't remove the oss emu10k1 driver in favor
> of alsa's until alsa provides an equivalent interface.  That's a basic
> compatibility requirement.
> 
> 
>> ALSA's in-kernel OSS emulation does not have these features and
>> never will.
> 
> "Never" is terribly long.
> 
>   OG.

"Never" probably only means terribly long. :-)

If one takes the ALSA todo list, that is massive (it is so long in fact,
that we have not had time to write it all down!), sort it by priority,
then divide by the amount of ALSA developers time available, for this
particular feature, the time to implementation is getting very close to
"Never".

James
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