From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pete Zaitcev Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:00:34 +0000 Subject: Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity Message-Id: <20060104030034.6b780485.zaitcev@redhat.com> List-Id: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <20060103193736.GG3831@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alistair John Strachan , kloczek@rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl Cc: Adrian Bunk , Olivier Galibert , Tomasz Torcz , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , 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@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:37:55 +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > 2) ALSA API is to complicated: most applications opens single sound > > stream. > > FUD and nonsense. [] > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/alsa/ That's the kicker, isn't it? Once you get used to it, it's a workable API, if kinky and verbose. I have a real life example, too: http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/mpg123-0.59r-p3.diff But arriving on the solution costed a lot of torn hair. Look at this bald head here! And who is going to pay my medical bills when ALSA causes me ulcers, Jaroslav? -- Pete