Re: OSS: cleanup or throw away

[Markus Hästbacka]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Jos Hulzink wrote:
> Maybe we should start ditching OSS drivers of cards that are known to work
> "reasonably well" in ALSA. If someone starts screaming "I need OSS for the
> ALSA driver contains a bug", that bug might even be located and dealt with
> much sooner. The ALSA OSS emulation is good enough for user land
> applications to survive I think, so it's just a matter of driver bugs.
>
Not true.

> This way we end with a list of OSS drivers that are not ported yet or that
> never will be ported.
>
> OTOH, I don't know how the big bosses here think about ditching OSS
> from a stable kernel tree... Can imagine they think it is not done.
>
Good idea, then maybe someone will fix the bug that makes ALSA unusable
for me. (Or maybe it's a feature? O_o)

I don't describe it here, I've sent a few mails about it, no response, so
I don't wait for any response this time either, so why bother.

	Markus
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