Message-ID: <3D98769A000FAA05@ims5a.libero.it> (added by postmaster@libero.it)
To: Abramo Bagnara <abramo.bagnara@libero.it>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	Anders Torger <torger@ludd.luth.se>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>,
	Tim Goetze <tim@quitte.de>, alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Why do I get broken pipe on write to a pcm in statePREPARED? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 Oct 2002 20:04:00 +0200."
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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 17:19:42 -0400
From: Paul Davis <pbd@op.net>

 
 [ abramo: please forward to alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. thanks. ]

>I'm strongly convinced that to have poll waiting for something that
>cannot happens is a big mistake (also as an optional behaviour).

there are several, perhaps even lots, of other device drivers in the
linux kernel that do this.

>That apart I'm sure that to make a change in actual behaviour between
>rcX and 1.0 is a professional suicide. However it's _your_ professional
>suicide so... ;-)))

not *one* person on alsa-devel has described software that would be
broken by this change. 

given that jaroslav is already changing the API between rcX and rcZ,
this doesn't seem like much of a problem, anyway.

>To resume, if you ask me, the answer is no.

well, he did ask you, but my answer is yes :))

--p