Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753420AbXFXWsx (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:48:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751202AbXFXWsq (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:48:46 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:46705 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751004AbXFXWsp (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:48:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kNL++SmJDAPTr1jycaU0tT7wVKrbuQeseuGO9tcNgfbRV8o07MiimjC3kQv0tfRKxcVdRRbhcsgooj12382HksJ2GxeRwHoOaazNYSVo+/5XDOn+bQmVHviDxx7fSWh+2ejP8WB0ArbGgoJuwW/qVLhFe7B+LSfYG1vXmALV/Ro= Message-ID: <9a8748490706241548r5a2bab5fw20daf424beb338d0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:48:45 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Carlo Wood" , "Alan Cox" , "=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tomasz_K=B3oczko?=" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? In-Reply-To: <20070624224411.GB21724@alinoe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070624200837.16e11305@the-village.bc.nu> <20070624215724.025a5de5@the-village.bc.nu> <20070624224411.GB21724@alinoe.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1516 Lines: 40 On 25/06/07, Carlo Wood wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:57:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Sory Alan but I don't want philosophical/historical discuss. > > > Try to answer on question "ALSA or OSS ?" using *only* technical arguments. > > > > We dropped OSS for ALSA for technical reasons. Those being that ALSA > > - has a better audio API > > - is more flexible > > - provides OSS as emulation > > - supports more hardware > > I sent a patch to the ALSA developers 4 years ago. > It was never included in the kernel :/ > Did you try resending it? Sometimes patches get missed, overlooked, dropped on the floor by mistake etc. [snip] > > My (four year old) patch can be found here: > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/alsa/index.html > > I STILL think that ALSA should restart the stream after an underrun, > but I am not someone who asks twice :p usually. > When it comes to getting patches into mainline, asking twice (or more) is sometimes required, and it's considered your responsability as submitter to resend a patch if noone reacts to it the first time around. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/