[LAD] alsa and OSS (again?)

Jay Vaughan jayv at synth.net
Mon Jan 21 09:13:10 UTC 2008


> Or, if from the get go it would have been included in the mainline
> kernel source (after submitting it to the proper channels, etc, etc -
> difficult but not impossible. Out of mainline kernel drivers have  
> always
> been a pain...).
>

There are no kernel drivers in MidiShare, only kernel modules.  The  
drivers sit in user space and are not dependent on the Linux drivers  
unless you deem it so ..

> I did wrestle with midishare a while back for Planet CCRMA (for
> openmusic, same as Dave) and I'm not looking forward to a rehash of
> that :-)
>


I'm guessing the hard-coded paths and the sub-tree Makefile scheme in  
MidiShare presented a dilemna?

;
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Jay Vaughan







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