Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:48:45 +0200 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? |
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On 25/06/07, Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:57:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Sory Alan but I don't want philosophical/historical discuss. > > > Try to answer on question "ALSA or OSS ?" using *only* technical arguments. > > > > We dropped OSS for ALSA for technical reasons. Those being that ALSA > > - has a better audio API > > - is more flexible > > - provides OSS as emulation > > - supports more hardware > > I sent a patch to the ALSA developers 4 years ago. > It was never included in the kernel :/ > Did you try resending it? Sometimes patches get missed, overlooked, dropped on the floor by mistake etc.
[snip] > > My (four year old) patch can be found here: > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/alsa/index.html > > I STILL think that ALSA should restart the stream after an underrun, > but I am not someone who asks twice :p usually. > When it comes to getting patches into mainline, asking twice (or more) is sometimes required, and it's considered your responsability as submitter to resend a patch if noone reacts to it the first time around.
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