Re: Kernel OSS vs ALSA

Gabor Lenart (lgb@oxygene.terra.vein.hu)
Thu, 14 Oct 1999 19:54:53 +0200

On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 07:10:33PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> - anyone can open /dev/dsp
>
> - if more than one instance of /dev/dsp is open, the ioctls
> and so on are routed to a separate mixing module, which fakes
> the separate devices and writes to the real one.

Yes, yes ! It's a bad idea to do something VERY new system which is not
in kernel (so many users hasn't got it loaded all the time). It's MUCH MORE
simple to use the good old way with this "little" extension :) All the old
softwares (binary only ones too) would continue working with it too !

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