Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750871AbWAEJ6F (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:58:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751895AbWAEJ6F (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:58:05 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.202]:35349 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750871AbWAEJ6D convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:58:03 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MCki8lVw9uHpyiChZ4+vnd3rJjLFUub2WddL+NQ1Us/MQ3HkQbFxuRB3t9Mf2I9dLAJb0qHa7gB8c+rkKZ76+yy6U5j8Fk9VNo96dG90mP/WqWu3ijxJfXHKIOoUp2bFsDQ9g2aMjfd8S/FCnGX6ZJ4srhN/vt/vWXnPaDdMqRQ= Message-ID: <7e5f60720601050157p2e8e077eg45d6e666bb5ceeb6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:57:43 +0100 From: Peter Bortas To: Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal 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 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <200601031522.06898.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103215654.GH3831@stusta.de> <20060103221314.GB23175@irc.pl> <20060103231009.GI3831@stusta.de> <43BB16C0.3080308@stesmi.com> <43BB9A0B.3010209@stesmi.com> <7e5f60720601041903s3462bf9bib9ada16fe70ef988@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 730 Lines: 16 On 1/5/06, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >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. Correct. Rederection to $AUDIODEVICE that is a normal /dev/audio. - 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/