Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity

Florian Schmidt
2006-01-06T11:34:40Z

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 05:33:43 +0200 (EET)
Hannu Savolainen <hannu@opensound.com> wrote:

> Then this is in no way an API issue. Many OSS drivers (including envy24)
> create separete device files for each input/output channel (or device pair).
> Applications can chose to open the first device file in for all the
> channels or any combination of the devices in mono/stereo/n-channel mode.
>
> All this depends only on the driver implementation. There is nothing API
> related. Any app can open the devices as usual without paying any
> attention on the channel allocation (which is done automatically by the
> driver). xmms (or whatever else consumer app) can open the device and ask
> for stereo access. Equally well a DAB application can open the device and
> ask for full 10 output channels (or anything between 1 and 10). No special
> API features are needed for this.

Hi,

i would find it helpful if you always made it crystal clear about what
version of OSS you are talking about:

- your proprietary version

- or the free one in the kernel

Mixing these isn't helping the discussion.

Flo

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