Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

[Carlo Florendo]

Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> [..]
> > Years ago Linux dumped OSS for ALSA because ALSA offered far better
> > functionality and support. Why would we go back to the stone age ?
> >
> > Its something useful to various other platforms with basically no
> > hardware support but Linux has ALSA and very good hardware support and
> > ALSA even has emulation for back compatibility with old OSS apps.
> >
> > Ten years ago it would probably have made a difference, five maybe, today
> > its a release of historical code at best, and since they shipped binary
> > modules for Linux more like 'getting around to complying with the
> > licence' than anything else.
>
> Sory Alan but I don't want philosophical/historical discuss.
> Try to answer on question "ALSA or OSS ?" using *only* technical arguments.

You dare to demand technical arguments while you have not provided a single 
one.  How dare you?


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