On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Paul Davis wrote: >> What's going to happen with usb audio/midi support ? >> Since alsa should become the kernel standard driver for audio/midi/seq >> devices and all the work the usb people have done to support the audio >> class is based on the oss-api does that mean with 2.5 or 2.6 I'll no > since the POSIX API is used, there's no way to route around this > (without LD_PRELOAD anyway). so my question is: are these drivers > actually part of OSS/Free (i.e. .../src/linux/drivers/char/sound), or
At least the driver handling the standard USB Audio Device Class is located in the USB kernel directory, ie. linux/drivers/usb. All code is in the big (~4000loc) audio.c file. It implements the OSS ioctls, plus OSS-style mmap() (and of course read()/write()). But it does register itself to the OSS subsystem (to drivers/sound/sound_core.c) like all other sound drivers, so it _is_ part of OSS. But basicly if ALSA provides (does it?) the soundcore services (combined with ALSA's own OSS-emulation layer) you should be able to continue to use the USB drivers. Oh well, let's cc this to alsa-devel.. -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux! _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
