On 5 November 2013 19:57, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote: > Since the oss code can fail to initialize without handling it > gracefully, it really cannot be default on any platform.
Can you describe what the actual problem is we're trying to fix here, please? I can't see a description of it in any of the mailing list threads (there are references to irc conversations but it's really not clear what the actual symptoms are). I have a system with no /dev/dsp, and it can build and run systems fine (including passing 'make check') with the oss backend as the (default-by-configure) only backend. The only thing that happens is that there are a bunch of warnings from ossaudio, like this: oss: Could not initialize ADC oss: Failed to open `/dev/dsp' oss: Reason: No such file or directory oss: Could not initialize ADC oss: Failed to open `/dev/dsp' oss: Reason: No such file or directory audio: Failed to create voice `mm_ac97.in' but they don't prevent make check from working, they don't prevent systems from booting, and they have been present for *years*. I really don't see why you suddenly needed to apply this patch despite the fact that most of the response you got to it was negative. thanks -- PMM
