linux-kernel - Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

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Message-ID: <20070625132048.GA55182@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:20:48 +0200
From:	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:	Tomasz K?oczko <kloczek@...y.mif.pg.gda.pl>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:58:02PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Hm...  I don't agree much with the virtual relay device solution.
> I once experimentally implemented an ALSA-OSS virtual kernel driver.
> But, it just gives more complexity.

So instead you move the complexity in the library where it is worse.


> Yes, the library solution has merits and demerits.  The library should
> have been differently designed.  But, I don't think the virtual relay
> is the best solution just because you can use a bare kernel
> interface...

Whatever you do in the library won't solve the problem of properly
supporting the OSS interface.

  OG.

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