Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:22:58 +0100
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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Cc: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>,
       Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal
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At Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:03:16 +0100,
Olivier Galibert wrote:
> 
> > This is exactly why the OSS emulation option in ALSA is really a last resort 
> > and should not be an excuse for people to ignore implementing ALSA support 
> > directly. More so, it is very good justification for ditching "everything 
> > OSS" as soon as possible, at least in new software.
> 
> Actually the crappy state of OSS emulation is a good reason to ditch
> ALSA in its current implementation.  As Linus reminded not so long
> ago, backwards compatibility is extremely important.

Well, we keep the compatibility exactly -- OSS drivers don't support
software mixing in the kernel, too :)


Takashi
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