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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?
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From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:30:36 +0100
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On 25 Jun 2007, Adrian Bunk stated:
> If people often run into this problem it might make sense to deprecate 
> the in-kernel OSS emulation and point people to the userspace emulation 
> instead?

So now people need to know internal implementation details like if a
program uses ALSA or OSS interfaces before they know how to *run* it?

That doesn't sound especially nice to use (and before you say
`distributors will do it', not all programs are built by distributors).