Indeed, the author of that comment seems to be confusing OSSv4 with Cameron Grant's newpcm, which was a separate thing. It was developed around the same time as

Indeed, the author of that comment seems to be confusing OSSv4 with Cameron Grant's newpcm, which was a separate thing. It was developed around the same time as ALSA but didn't have a new userspace API like ALSA and OSSv4 did.