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

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Message-ID: <20070628204305.GB6087@stusta.de>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:43:05 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>
Cc:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>, Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>,
	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 Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:20:45PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On 6/28/07, Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com> 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

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