Re: alsa-oss

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn (d jacobfeuerborn conversis de) said: 
> >Realistically, I doubt the OSS api can go away entirely. How it's 
> >implemented
> >(userspace, kernelspace, whatever) can be debated, but I think we'll never
> >get away with removing it entirely.
> 
> Why not?

The kernel still has a.out support (although we may not build it.)

OSS was the kernel's sound API for roughly 10 years. Even if it is
deprecated, it's hard to kill something like that.

Bill