Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] alsa/usb
From: Kai Vehmanen (kai.vehmanen_AT_wakkanet.fi)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 20:51:38 EET
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Paul Davis wrote:
>> But it does register itself to the OSS subsystem (to
>> drivers/sound/sound_core.c) like all other sound drivers, so it _is_
>> part of OSS.
> no. sound_core is NOT part of OSS. ALSA attaches to it as well. Alan
> Cox wrote that so that OSS and ALSA could (theoretically) co-exist.
Now I'm nitpicking, but actually only part of ALSA registering to
soundcore is the OSS-emulation layer. And wasn't soundcore written to
allow OSS/kernel and OSS/commercial coexists (OSS/commercial drivers
register to soundcore)...?
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