Re: Do we need /dev/sequencer anymore?

Rozhuk Ivan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.multimedia,gmane.os.freebsd.architechture,gmane.os.freebsd.desktop
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sat, 17 May 2025 21:51:03 +0200
Christos Margiolis <[email protected]> wrote:

> I want to clean up and modernize sys/dev/sound/midi and I'm wondering
> what the use-case for /dev/sequencer is nowadays, if any. Does anyone
> know of any application, or someone, who relies on this? If not, I
> think we could go ahead and get rid of it.
> 
> Christos
> 

I see no software that uses /dev/sequencer0.
Wine and audio/playmidi uses /dev/sequencer.

I see no reasons to keep in kernel sequencer code, since there is user space implementation:
https://github.com/rozhuk-im/virtual_midi
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