[LAD] midishare (was alsa and OSS (again?))

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 16:54 +0100, Albert Graef wrote:
> Jay Vaughan wrote:
> > Well I have it working fine on both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, so I don't know
> > what the dilemna is here, really ..
> 
> Judging from what I read on the Midishare list, most Linux users of
> Midishare indeed have trouble dealing with compilation probs in the
> kernel module. Not you and me, but you can't expect end users to be able
> to handle problems due to the ever-changing kernel API. This stuff isn't
> trivial. You don't have to be a kernel hacker (I'm certainly not), but
> you really need to understand the Midishare code if you have to sift the
> kernel headers for a replacement for some kernel routine which just
> miraculously disappeared, thanks to your friendly kernel dev cleaning up
> the kernel code. I've done it more than once...

That's exactly why it should be either moved into the mainline kernel
(no, I'm not voluteering to do that :-) or completely into user space. 

What is it that makes that last option impossible?
-- Fernando