Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:46:43 +0100 (MET)

>> Still would be nice if users of ALSA who have the OSS backwards compat
>> enabled would thus also get transparent software mixing for all apps
>> using the OSS API.
>> not crucial, that's not what I'm saying, just nice if it would be possible.
>
>Technicall it's trivial to implement the soft-mixing in the kernel.
>The question is whether it's the right implementation.
>We have a user-space softmix for ALSA, and aoss wrapper for OSS using
>it. (I know aoss still has some problems that should be fixed,
>though.)
>
Software mixing in the kernel is like FPU ops in the kernel...

Jan Engelhardt
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