Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765695AbXF1Umt (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:42:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759878AbXF1Umm (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:42:42 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:43620 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757619AbXF1Umm (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:42:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:43:05 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Lee Revell Cc: Rene Herman , Nix , Olivier Galibert , Takashi Iwai , Tomasz K?oczko , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? Message-ID: <20070628204305.GB6087@stusta.de> 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> <75b66ecd0706281320s29178c8brec8c3ef6b7fe7e7b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <75b66ecd0706281320s29178c8brec8c3ef6b7fe7e7b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1417 Lines: 35 On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:20:45PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > 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. There's software like mplayer that supports both and tries OSS first... > Lee cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/