Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 04:46:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 04:46:48 -0500 Received: from swazi.realnet.co.sz ([196.28.7.2]:58066 "HELO netfinity.realnet.co.sz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 04:46:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:50:46 +0200 (SAST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo X-X-Sender: To: John Gluck Cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: OSS driver cleanups. In-Reply-To: <20011204012615.IBYG23527.femail5.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> Message-ID: 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 On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, John Gluck wrote: > Hi > > Out of curiosity, will ALSA also be available on the 24..xx kernels?? > Will there be a choice of useing OSS or ALSA?? > Will the ALSA drivers be the 0.9 series or the old 0.5 series??? AFAIK they > are very very different in architecture. > > I welcome the use of ALSA, as it appears to be a more flexibile solution and > can be used with OSS compatibility from an application point of view. My only > concern is that there is a potential for looseing support for some sound > cards. I doubt ALSA will get into 2.4 since its maintenance only, but i'm not the final authority on this ;) Also when ALSA starts getting incorporated into the kernel, they will use their more upto date tree, i would presume, so they wouldn't start at 0.5. But as everyone else says, i'm sure we'll be backporting fixes and perhaps even additional card support into 2.4-OSS as they appear. Cheers, Zwane Mwaikambo - 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/