Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765359AbXF1UUz (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:20:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759927AbXF1UUr (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:20:47 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.239]:55815 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758843AbXF1UUq (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:20:46 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=XPNoFsHVZrKKBY4rvq7s6ze0SooiQdaw0+7p21aUbRkbBttXDDWh9JmCACUOkLvEw/OW8Zo+iBOSMyxy346SsOsPtqy00J7cpFhg/g9L06UyixWoqHWYl7XM+e1S+a8Y20AUF3XhDWJYXdyRNVLOTdWeTfHGg4YWN13sCcu6Ic0= Message-ID: <75b66ecd0706281320s29178c8brec8c3ef6b7fe7e7b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:20:45 -0400 From: "Lee Revell" To: "Rene Herman" Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? Cc: Nix , "Adrian Bunk" , "Olivier Galibert" , "Takashi Iwai" , "Tomasz K?oczko" , "Alan Cox" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <468413D2.60101@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070624215724.025a5de5@the-village.bc.nu> <20070625124442.GA44019@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20070625132107.GD1094@stusta.de> <87tzssextf.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> <468413D2.60101@gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: b55ef0d8be628676 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 999 Lines: 19 On 6/28/07, Rene Herman wrote: > ALSA has been the Linux soundsystem for a number of years now and as such, > an application that runs under Linux and produces sound more and more can be > expected to do so using the Linux API. The only reason it _can_ be seen as a > detail is due to the Just Works nature of the OSS emulation but that is > changing due to the software mixing. Binary apps are also moving to ALSA > currently, ie, flash, skype, ... If your disto ships with any OSS apps using the in-kernel emulation you should file a bug report, as it results in bizarre and undesirable behavior - a single app opening /dev/dsp will block audio for every other app (OSS or ALSA) on the vast majority of hardware out there. Lee - 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/