Greg, I noticed several things about ossaudiodev.  It
doesn't seem to be mentioned in Misc/NEWS.  Likewise,
the deprecation of linuxaudiodev.

linuxaudiodev is still in setup.py, but ossaudiodev
isn't mentioned in setup.py or Modules/Setup.
I added it to setup.py and tried to build, but got 2
compilation errors:  SNDCTL_DSP_GETSPDIF and
SNDCTL_DSP_SETSPDIF are not defined (Redhat 7.2, Linux
2.4.7-10).  After commenting out lines 1019 and 1031
(those with the two constants) and it compiled.

The test failed:

*** lines 2-7 of actual output doesn't appear in
expected output after line 1:
+ expected rate >= 0, not -1
+ expected sample size >= 0, not -2
+ nchannels must be 1 or 2, not 3
+ unknown audio encoding: 177
+ for linear unsigned 16-bit little-endian audio,
expected sample size 16, not 8
+ for linear unsigned 8-bit audio, expected sample size
8, not 16

I'm not sure the status of ossaudiodev or if you know
about these problems.

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This has been fixed by various checkins, including my last
one -- ossaudiodev.c 1.21