alsa-oss

[Adam Jackson]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Dennis Jacobfeuerborn (d.jacobfeuerborn at conversis.de) said: 
>>> Realistically, I doubt the OSS api can go away entirely. How it's 
>>> implemented
>>> (userspace, kernelspace, whatever) can be debated, but I think we'll never
>>> get away with removing it entirely.
>> Why not?
> 
> The kernel still has a.out support (although we may not build it.)
> 
> OSS was the kernel's sound API for roughly 10 years. Even if it is
> deprecated, it's hard to kill something like that.

Code is short and APIs are forever.

Monty was sounding pretty optimistic about using FUSD to really do OSS 
emulation right.

- ajax