Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932527AbWACUkE (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:40:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932526AbWACUkD (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:40:03 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:10639 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932525AbWACUkA (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:40:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:44:49 +0100 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Tomasz Torcz Cc: Olivier Galibert , Alistair John Strachan , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , Adrian Bunk , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, kyle@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal In-Reply-To: <20060103203732.GF5262@irc.pl> References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <200601031522.06898.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103160502.GB5262@irc.pl> <200601031629.21765.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103170316.GA12249@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20060103203732.GF5262@irc.pl> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.5 (beta21) (corn) (+CVS-20050720) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1248 Lines: 31 At Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:37:32 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:22:58PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > 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 :) > > OSS will support software mixing. In kernel. On NetBSD. > http://kerneltrap.org/node/4388 Why do we need to keep the compatibility with NetBSD? Takashi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/