[PATCH] added detection of ALSA OSS devices

[Danny Kukawka]

On Tuesday 26 July 2005 16:01, David Zeuthen wrote:
[...]
>
> I still have a few issues with this
>
>  - ALSA-OSS emulation provides OSS emulation through ALSA; thus we
>    shouldn't export hal device objects with alsa.* properties; it
>    should be oss.* properties if we should export anything

O.K. I agree, it makes sense to name OSS device related keys with oss.*
I'll rework the patch.

>  - Not sure we want to export OSS objects at all in HAL; is there
>    a good reason for doing this? Everything should be using ALSA
>    anyway

I think we should. Indeed, everyone should use ALSA, but this is not
reality. There are many applications supporting OSS only (e.g Quake).
Additionally, almost all sound/multimedia applications at least support
OSS. Hence, is there any reason not to add these devices to HAL?

>  - The device file names are fixed (OSS apps except this) so why don't
>    just resort to udev rules for the permission tweaking?

Yes we could this with udev. But: What's the reason to use HAL anyway?
After all HAL collects information about hardware and provides these
information to other applications.

Cheers,

Danny
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