Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] VIDEO_SAA7134_ALSA shouldn't select SND_PCM_OSS
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Ricardo Cerqueira <v4l@cerqueira.org>, mchehab@brturbo.com.br,
       video4linux-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:14:05 -0500
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On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 05:06 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> There's no reason for an ALSA driver to select an OSS legacy userspace 
> interface.

Actually there is a reason.  While OSS may be deprecated the OSS API is
not - ALSA is committed to supporting it for the forseeable future.  And
as broken an interface as it is, a lot of people consider the sound
system broken if you can't just write() to /dev/dsp and have sound come
out.

Lee

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