[LAD] alsa and OSS (again?)

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 10:13 +0100, Jay Vaughan wrote:
> > 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 ..

Sure. Kernel modules it is. The problem is still the same. 

> > 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?

Hmm,  don't remember problems other than having to maintain external
kernel modules. Any quirks in the build process is usually easily
compensated...

-- Fernando