Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal | Date | Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:52:09 +0100 |
| |
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 14:47, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> It strikes me that it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Vendors are still > releasing applications on Linux that support only OSS, partly due to > ignorance, but mostly because ALSA's OSS compatibility layer allows them to > lazily ignore the ALSA API and target all cards, old and new.
As long as it works why is that a bad thing? OSS API works just fine for most sound needs. If you want to do high end sound you can still use ALSA.
> Additionally, we can't get rid of OSS compatibility until pretty much all > hardware has an ALSA driver, and (inferred from your comment) we can't get > rid of OSS drivers until nothing supports OSS, because the whole of the ALSA > stuff is a bit larger...
We can never get rid of it. Linux doesn't break widely used application interfaces.
> Even if Adrian's not trying to make this point (he's just removing duplicate > drivers, and opting for the newer ones), we accepted ALSA into the kernel. > It's probably about time we let OSS die properly, for sanity purposes.
Avoiding bloat is more important.
-Andi - 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/
| |