Re: Fw: PATCH: creating devices for multiple sound cards

[Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>]

ALSA won't replace OSS overnight, and so a small
amount of OSS-maintenance can't possibly hurt. For
example, I use the OSS version of the emu10k1 driver
for DVD sound because the OSS one is realtime-capable
(and so provides better synchronisation) but the ALSA
one isn't yet.

Besides, the API I've tried to fix is actually *used*
by ALSA to provide OSS-emulation devices, except that
it doesn't work on a devfs-based machine with multiple
sound cards because all the device names clash.

Cheers,
Chris

--- Bill Pringlemeir <bpringle@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >>>>> "Zach" == Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net> writes:
> [snip]
>  Zach> doing many other things.  Hopefully the
> kernel side of ALSA
>  Zach> will be acceptable for inclusion in 2.5.  At
> least it has an
>  Zach> army of people actively maintaining it.
> 
> If ALSA will replace OSS, then does it make it
> somewhat futile to add
> things to the current set of sound drivers?  I was
> going to look at
> the SBLive driver.  I have been side tracked by an
> xterm bug; it seems
> to have bad handling of utmp on Linux.
> 
> regards,
> Bill Pringlemeir.
> 


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