Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:33:08 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] VIDEO_SAA7134_ALSA shouldn't select SND_PCM_OSS |
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On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:14:05PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > 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.
No disagreement, but that's not the point.
SND_PCM_OSS gives an OSS API interface for userspace on top of ALSA. ALSA drivers shouldn't care whether they are controlled directly through ALSA or through a legacy OSS API on top of ALSA.
If someone wants to use SND_PCM_OSS that is fine, but the ALSA interface to my saa7134 card is working fine, so why does it force me to compile a legacy OSS API interface into the kernel?
> Lee
cu Adrian
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