linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE

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Message-ID: <s5htzd4gl3n.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:40:44 +0200
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE

At Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:05:53 +0200,
Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> So, after all the fuss, here's the state-of-the-art standard-compliant
> cloud-computing web-3.0-beta web page for OSS emulation using CUSE.
> 
>   http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/ossp/
> 
> It works pretty well here.  :-)

Thanks for info.  Just a quick glance, CUSE looks like a good
abstraction for this kind of things.

I've been thinking that the tunneling to an OSS-emulation daemon would
be the best way, too, and I actually made a similar hack (not based on
FUSE but own kernel module).

It was presented in SUSE Labs conference a few years ago.  And the
reaction by audience at that time was what Adrian showed -- why do we
need such a complexity at all?  Well, as long as we have OSS API and
its applications, we should keep supporting them in a good form.

Anyway, my implementation at that time was too hackish and I gave up
soon.  If it can be implemented in a generic framework like CUSE,
it's a good chance to merge to the upstream.

One thing I couldn't find in your code is the mmap support.
The mmap support is crucial for some apps, typically used for games.
Am I missing something?

thanks,

Takashi
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