Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932546AbWADQoJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:44:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751650AbWADQoI (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:44:08 -0500 Received: from ds01.webmacher.de ([213.239.192.226]:20664 "EHLO ds01.webmacher.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751591AbWADQoH (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:44:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: 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> <9a8748490601031256x916bddav794fecdcf263fb55@mail.gmail.com> <20060103215654.GH3831@stusta.de> <9a8748490601031411p17d4417fyffbfee00ca85ac82@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Cc: Takashi Iwai , Jesper Juhl , Adrian Bunk , Tomasz Torcz , Olivier Galibert , Alistair John Strachan , Andi Kleen , 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Marcin Dalecki Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:43:39 +0100 To: Jan Engelhardt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1167 Lines: 29 On 2006-01-04, at 15:46, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> Still would be nice if users of ALSA who have the OSS backwards >>> compat >>> enabled would thus also get transparent software mixing for all apps >>> using the OSS API. >>> not crucial, that's not what I'm saying, just nice if it would be >>> possible. >> >> Technicall it's trivial to implement the soft-mixing in the kernel. >> The question is whether it's the right implementation. >> We have a user-space softmix for ALSA, and aoss wrapper for OSS using >> it. (I know aoss still has some problems that should be fixed, >> though.) >> > Software mixing in the kernel is like FPU ops in the kernel... Could you please elaborate a tad bit more on the analogy? It doesn't appear to be stunningly obvious. Are you aware of the reasons why floating point operations are avoided inside the kernel? They are *not* principal - it's just engineering pragmatism. - 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/