From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lennart Poettering Subject: Re: Guide to Linux Sound APIs Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:23:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20080925002315.GA16402@tango.0pointer.de> References: <20080924224833.GA8280@tango.0pointer.de> <87abdxxhzp.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <20080925001718.GN1107@arwen.poofy.goof.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from tango.0pointer.de (tango.0pointer.de [85.214.72.216]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFEF2244E5 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:23:15 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080925001718.GN1107@arwen.poofy.goof.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Cc: "Aaron J. Grier" List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Wed, 24.09.08 17:17, Aaron J. Grier (agrier@poofygoof.com) wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 09:05:14AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Lennart Poettering writes: > > > > > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis > > > > > > I'd be very thankful for comments, especially from you Takashi and > > > Jaroslav since it contains quite some details about the "safe" subset > > > of the ALSA API! > > > > > > I'm thankful for all kinds of input! > > > > I'm very thankful that you've made this positive contribution. It is > > sorely needed, and I hope it will spur greater collaboration. > > how finalized is the "safe ALSA subset" to mention it in the ALSA docs? > I am an embedded developer new to ALSA and am still a bit bewildered on > best-practices. Dunno. This guide is just something I wrote up as someone who knows the ALSA API quite well I think. However, I am mostly just a developer *using* the API, not a developer *writing* the API. If you want some reliable, "official" opinions, then wait until Takashi and Jaroslav commented on this. They are certainly the ones whose endorsing or not-endorsing of this guide matters the most. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4