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

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Message-ID: <87tzssextf.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:30:36 +0100
From:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	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 25 Jun 2007, Adrian Bunk stated:
> If people often run into this problem it might make sense to deprecate 
> the in-kernel OSS emulation and point people to the userspace emulation 
> instead?

So now people need to know internal implementation details like if a
program uses ALSA or OSS interfaces before they know how to *run* it?

That doesn't sound especially nice to use (and before you say
`distributors will do it', not all programs are built by distributors).
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