From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Poll and OSS API
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 01:18:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A03AA33.3D0A61A@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011020937410.1432-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Thomas Sailer wrote:
> >
> > The OSS API (http://www.opensound.com/pguide/oss.pdf, page 102ff)
> > specifies that a select _with the sounddriver's filedescriptor
> > set in the read mask_ should start the recording.
>
> So fix the stupid API.
>
> The above is just idiocy.
We're pretty much stuck with the API, until we look at merging ALSA in
2.5.x. Broken API or not, OSS is a mature API, and there are
spec-correct apps that depend on this behavior.
(FWIW, ALSA nicely marginalizes its OSS support into a single module, so
that ALSA drivers aren't affected by OSS' ugliness)
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-04 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-02 14:03 Poll and OSS API Thomas Sailer
2000-11-02 14:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-02 14:27 ` Thomas Sailer
2000-11-02 14:47 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-02 14:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-02 14:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-02 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-02 17:59 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-04 6:18 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2000-11-04 6:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-04 7:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-04 7:26 ` Jeff Garzik
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