<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Ossp is not a kernel patch. Ossp is userspace and depends on a kernel feature cuse(char devices in userspace) Cuse appears in 2.6.32 kernels end of year kernel release. Ubuntu 10.10 release cuse will be a default feature no kernel building required. Same with every distribution using 2.6.32 and later kernels. No point wasting effort for something that is only going to be useful for a few months.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Okay. It requires a kernel patch. If what you say is true, Ubuntu 10.04 could ship with this enabled, but that's the better part of 7 months away. I know there are other distributions on different schedules, but I don't know which kernels they'll ship.<br>
<br>This thread is <b>not</b> about:<br><ul><li>The best hal design</li><li>Who you are in the pecking order of Linux audio</li><li>Pulseaudio's numerous flaws</li><li>What has happened in Linux audio's history</li>
<li>What is coming in the distant future</li></ul>It's been about getting Wine audio working, even in imperfect
conditions, right now. PA is all over the place and Wine doesn't
support it. That should be a critical bug.<br><br></div></div>And as I said earlier, Wine makes concessions for Windows' shortfalls so why not make one for Pulseaudio until something better (ossp, gstreamer, etc) is implemented and ready?<br>