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2009-09-10T20:54:36+00:00mikachu
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Calling OSS deprecated when only linux uses alsa is a bit odd. There is also <a href="http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html">http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-i...</a> which iirc was quite interesting.<br>
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Useful for network serial ports
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2008-12-02T21:14:41+00:00astrand
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With this mechanism, it would be much easier to support network redirected serial ports. Currently, cyclades-serial-client uses LD_PRELOAD, which is far from optimal. <br>
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/Maintainer of cyclades-serial-client and sercd<br>
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Character devices in user space
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2008-11-28T20:14:31+00:00xav
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... as long as you have the kernel driver. Ok. <br>
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Character devices in user space
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2008-11-28T19:54:23+00:00xav
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For the Palm Pilot case, a symlink from /dev/pilot to /dev/ttyUSBx is way more efficient.<br>
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Character devices in user space
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2008-11-26T23:01:36+00:00jengelh
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SunRay Server Software could make use of this to create sound device nodes that map to the soundcards of the remote appliances. Last time I checked (two years ago; SRSS 3.0/3.1) it had a kernel module of some sort that just proxied the data back to userspace to send it over the network; now CUSE could do that easily.<br>
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