Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757114AbXFYGsh (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:48:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753536AbXFYGsa (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:48:30 -0400 Received: from [202.78.101.198] ([202.78.101.198]:58439 "EHLO mx1.hq.astra.ph" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752380AbXFYGs3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:48:29 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1423 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:48:29 EDT Message-ID: <467F5FAE.6050700@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:24:46 +0800 From: Carlo Florendo User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tomasz_K=B3oczko?= Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? References: <20070624200837.16e11305@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1434 Lines: 40 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. You dare to demand technical arguments while you have not provided a single one. How dare you? -- Carlo Florendo Softare Engineer/Network Co-Administrator Astra Philippines Inc. UP-Ayala Technopark, Diliman 1101, Quezon City Philippines http://www.astra.ph -- The Astra Group of Companies 5-3-11 Sekido, Tama City Tokyo 206-0011, Japan http://www.astra.co.jp - 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/