Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Idea: fake OSS passback driver
From: RTaylor (ricktaylor_AT_speakeasy.net)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 14:50:02 EET
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>Daniel Risacher hat gesagt: // Daniel Risacher wrote:
>
>> Idea:
>>
>> Suppose one were to write a kernel module that implemented the OSS
>> API, but had non-blocking semantics, and instead of driving a sound
>> card, the module encapsulated the OSS API calls somehow and passed
>> them back to a user-space audio server.
>>
>> Now that I've articulated the idea, would anyone care to take over the
>> implementation?
>
>Isn't this already done and described here:
>http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin
Maybe something like a meta-driver that you could call from anything... a sort
of layer between the actual hardware setup and the rest of the system so that
application developers could simply reference the one consistent object without
dealing with any other issues.
Or will Dmix do that?
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