[linux-audio-dev] OSS will be back (was Re: alsa, oss , efficiency?)

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Mon Nov 6 18:39:43 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 16:51 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> The "deprecated" OSS issue needs some clarification. It's just the 
> OSS/Free drivers that are still hanging around in the kernel. that are 
> depracated. They are based on 10 years old version of the OSS 
> architecture and lack all the improvements and features added during 
> past years.

Real linux drivers reside in the mainline kernel.  Out of tree stuff is
is irrelevant.

Also, you've been promising for years that OSS will be free software
again, I doubt anyone believes you at this point.

Lee




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