Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

Lee Revell
2006-01-05T06:42:57Z

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