From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:42:57 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <1136443378.24475.8.camel@mindpipe> List-Id: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <200601031629.21765.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103170316.GA12249@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <200601031716.13409.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103192449.GA26030@dspnet.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20060103192449.GA26030@dspnet.fr.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Olivier Galibert Cc: Alistair John Strachan , Tomasz Torcz , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , Adrian Bunk , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, kyle@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 20:24 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > As for the OSS API being crippled, I'd take the 3 ioctl calls you need > to setup a simple stereo 16bits output with OSS than the 13 ALSA > library calls anyday. Especially with the impressive lack of > documentation you get about what the hell is a period, or what you can > do except aborting when you get an error. Same thing as a fragment in OSS. It's the number of frames between interrupts from the audio interface. Come on, Google could have told you that in 5 seconds. Lee