Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752097AbWAEHON (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 02:14:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752096AbWAEHON (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 02:14:13 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:3464 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752091AbWAEHOL (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 02:14:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:13:28 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Peter Bortas cc: Stefan Smietanowski , =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tomasz_K=B3oczko?= , Adrian Bunk , Jesper Juhl , Takashi Iwai , 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 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal In-Reply-To: <7e5f60720601041903s3462bf9bib9ada16fe70ef988@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <200601031522.06898.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <9a8748490601031256x916bddav794fecdcf263fb55@mail.gmail.com> <20060103215654.GH3831@stusta.de> <20060103221314.GB23175@irc.pl> <20060103231009.GI3831@stusta.de> <43BB16C0.3080308@stesmi.com> <43BB9A0B.3010209@stesmi.com> <7e5f60720601041903s3462bf9bib9ada16fe70ef988@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 611 Lines: 18 >No. Everything on Solaris uses the Solaris native sound API except for >possibly quick-hack ports of applications from Linux. Doing anything >else would as you say be insane and break things like device >redirection on Sunrays. > Device redirection is just "writing to a different /dev node" - on Solaris and Linux. IIRC, the API is the same. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/