On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:31:08PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > So, do you mean the soft-mixing is the biggest issue? That's just a > part of a design issue, and if we want to go to that way, the > impelemtation would be trivial, regardless on ALSA or not. Totally > irrelevant argument regarding "remove ALSA".
Soft mixing is actually the biggest issue because if you had generalized soft-mixing in the kernel-visible audio ports[1] you would win two things: - programs could use the OSS API without interfering with the ALSA one or which each other - programs coult use the ALSA kernel API directly without interfering either, which would allow alternative libalsa implementations for those who hate the current one Frankly, mandatory libraries are extremely annoying, and mandatory extremely complex overdesigned libraries are simply unbearable. OG. [1] Which does *not* mean doing the mixing in the kernel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
