Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity

Marcin Dalecki
2006-01-06T00:14:28Z

On 2006-01-06, at 00:40, Lee Revell wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:06 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
>> We have not received any single bug report that is caused
>> by the concept of kernel mixing.
>> Kernel mixing is not rocket science. All you need to do is picking a
>> sample from the output buffers of each of the applications, sum them
>> together (with some volume scaling) and feed the result to the
>> physical
>> device.
>
> Hey, interesting, this is exactly what dmix does in userspace. And we
> have not seen any bug reports caused by the concept of userspace
> mixing
> (just implementation bugs like any piece of software).

This attitude that every kind of software has to have bugs is
blunt idiotic tale-tale bullshit just showing off complete incompetence.

Does the acronym car-ABS and micro-controller maybe perhaps ring a
bell for you?