Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:36:47AM +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote:

There are two very opposite approaches to do a sound subsystem. The ALSA 
way is to expose every single detail of the hardware to the applications 
and to allow (or force) application developers to deal with them. The OSS 
approach is to provide maximum device abstraction in the API level (by 
isolating the apps from the hardware as much as practically possible).

Well, then it is quite clear to me: you can build an OSS-like interface
on top of ALSA, but you cannot build an ALSA-like interface on top of
OSS. This implies that an ALSA-like interface should be in the kernel,
and an OSS-like interface should be implemented on top of it in
userspace for those who do not need all the features. This way both
camps are satisfied.

Gabor

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