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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] VIDEO_SAA7134_ALSA shouldn't select SND_PCM_OSS
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On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 05:06 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> There's no reason for an ALSA driver to select an OSS legacy userspace
> interface.

Actually there is a reason. While OSS may be deprecated the OSS API is
not - ALSA is committed to supporting it for the forseeable future. And
as broken an interface as it is, a lot of people consider the sound
system broken if you can't just write() to /dev/dsp and have sound come
out.

Lee

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