On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 09:24 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > >> > OSS > >> > --- > >> > > >> > This has been a deprecated kernel interface for some time and will be > >> > disabled for squeeze > > > > Done. > > > >> > with mechanisms put in place to deal with legacy users. > > > > Er, not sure. > > I guess oss4-dkms will be enough to take care of these users, > hopefully it will reach squeeze in time.
Hopefully not. OSS4 on Linux is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Linux applications should not use /dev/dsp any more. Those that do may be handled by some kind of bridge to ALSA, which was what this item refers to. (The existing snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss don't seem to be good enough.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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