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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz>
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Subject: Re: OSS driver cleanups.
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Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> 
> 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.

IMHO ALSA should -never- go into 2.4.  It's fine as a patch but 2.5 is
the time for big merges, and since it's already available for 2.4
outside the kernel there shouldn't be any need for backporting

	Jeff


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