Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

From: Lee Revell
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 18:32:18 EST


On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:19 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 13:44 +0100, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> > > Second - you still didn't explain why this allows you to conclude
> > > that sound mixing should in no way be done inside the kernel.
> >
> > It works perfectly right now in userspace. Therefore it should not be
> > in the kernel.
> So all the complaints about dmix problems in the ALSA mailing lists are
> just exceptions that prove the above statement to be true.

No, it just means ALSA like the kernel is a work in progress. Anyway
almost all the known issues have been fixed. It works perfectly for the
vast majority of users.

Are all the Oopses posted to LKML evidence that the kernel is
fundamentally broken?

Lee

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