[Nikita V. Youshchenko] > Maybe it's better just not to provide oss drivers for chips supported > by alsa? AFAIK OSS will be removed from kernel soon...
It may or may not be removed soon - I note that it isn't listed in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt in kernel 2.6.11 yet. Anyway, two reasons not to drop OSS prematurely: One, while almost all OSS hardware is technically supported, by ALSA, some chips and configurations are supported *better* by OSS than by ALSA. Some vice versa. It would be bad to take away the option to try "the other driver" in cases where you have problems with the one. A sub-case of this is that the snd-pcm-oss driver doesn't always perform to expectations. Apparently Doom3 doesn't like it, and I've heard complaints from other people about it as well, though I can't remember what hardware or applications were involved. Two, even if ALSA drivers were perfect, upgrading a working configuration that uses OSS to a kernel that only provides an ALSA driver for your hardware is just one more avoidable upgrade hurdle. Peter
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