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    SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal
    On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:36:47AM +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote:

    > There are two very opposite approaches to do a sound subsystem. The ALSA
    > way is to expose every single detail of the hardware to the applications
    > and to allow (or force) application developers to deal with them. The OSS
    > approach is to provide maximum device abstraction in the API level (by
    > isolating the apps from the hardware as much as practically possible).

    Well, then it is quite clear to me: you can build an OSS-like interface
    on top of ALSA, but you cannot build an ALSA-like interface on top of
    OSS. This implies that an ALSA-like interface should be in the kernel,
    and an OSS-like interface should be implemented on top of it in
    userspace for those who do not need all the features. This way both
    camps are satisfied.

    Gabor

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