Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756828AbXFXTh2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:37:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752277AbXFXThO (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:37:14 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:44339 "EHLO pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751529AbXFXThN (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:37:13 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:37:05 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? In-reply-to: To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tomasz_K=B3oczko?= Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <467EC7E1.5070301@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1401 Lines: 32 Tomasz K?oczko wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > [..] >> Years ago Linux dumped OSS for ALSA because ALSA offered far better >> functionality and support. Why would we go back to the stone age ? >> >> Its something useful to various other platforms with basically no >> hardware support but Linux has ALSA and very good hardware support and >> ALSA even has emulation for back compatibility with old OSS apps. >> >> Ten years ago it would probably have made a difference, five maybe, today >> its a release of historical code at best, and since they shipped binary >> modules for Linux more like 'getting around to complying with the >> licence' than anything else. > > Sory Alan but I don't want philosophical/historical discuss. > Try to answer on question "ALSA or OSS ?" using *only* technical arguments. If you are the one advocating using OSS, it's up to you to explain why it's better using technical arguments, which you haven't done. I rather doubt it is possible to do so convincingly. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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/