OSS in Linux is unmaintained, doesn't support much current hardware, and
will not be included in future kernel packages. Unfortunately, there
are still some applications living in the 90s and trying to write to
/dev/dsp. These can be worked around using "aoss" or other wrappers
that use a preload library to redirect /dev/dsp, but users should not
have to do this. The snd-pcm-oss module provides /dev/dsp on top of
ALSA, but it doesn't work with software mixing.
Advocates: Mark Brown has volunteered to track down OSS users
I'll also stick my hand up
& everyone at the kernel team meeting in Portland agreed
Short name: nolinuxdevdsp
Wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/NoLinuxDevDsp
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.
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