Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161267AbWASTBM (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:01:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161275AbWASTBM (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:01:12 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:36498 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161267AbWASTBL (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:01:11 -0500 Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach From: Lee Revell To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, perex@suse.cz, Alan Cox In-Reply-To: References: <20060119174600.GT19398@stusta.de> <1137694944.32195.1.camel@mindpipe> <20060119182859.GW19398@stusta.de> <1137696885.32195.12.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:01:08 -0500 Message-Id: <1137697269.32195.14.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1519 Lines: 44 On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 20:04 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:54:45 -0500, > Lee Revell wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 19:28 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:22:23PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 18:46 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > 3. no ALSA drivers for the same hardware > > > > > > > > > > SOUND_SB > > > > > > > > ALSA certainly does support "100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64, > > > > ESS, Jazz16)", it would be a joke if it didn't... > > > > > > That's not the problem, I should have added an explanation: > > > > > > SOUND_SB (due to SOUND_KAHLUA and SOUND_PAS) > > > > > > > Hmm. From sound/oss/kahlua.c: > > > > /* > > * Initialisation code for Cyrix/NatSemi VSA1 softaudio > > * > > * (C) Copyright 2003 Red Hat Inc > > * > > > > Why was a new OSS driver written and accepted at such a late date, when > > OSS was already deprecated? > > You'll find out that it must be pretty easy to write kahlua driver for > ALSA, too, if you look at kahlua.c. Just need a hardware to certify > if this is really demanded... Yes, it looks simple enough to write a driver without the hardware, as long as someone volunteers to test it... Lee - 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/