>> If nobody has comments, I'm ready to prepare a whole patch for Linus
>> against the actual 2.5.1pre code.
i think we need to be just a little careful how we approach this. i
get the sense that many people feel that although ALSA has a much
better design than OSS, they also feel that the actual drivers for
several specific pieces of h/w are not as good as the ones currently
in the kernel. this seems to be particularly true of the creative
drivers, which seem to have benefited from a lot of people poking
around in them. in general, there seem to have been a lot more people
working on the OSS drivers than the ALSA ones. that may be just a
mistaken impression on my part.
i think we need to have a clear idea (and answer) about this issue, so
that we can explain to people who find that their card doesn't work as
well (at all?) under ALSA why this change is being made and what the
path and timeline back to "full operation" is.
--p
ps. this is true, for example, of the Wavefront driver, which has been
broken w.r.t PCM for months and months due to changes in the
cs4321 code. even though i have tried to figure out what was done,
i've never managed to get it to work again.
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