Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity

Olivier Galibert
2006-01-05T23:49:51Z

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:39:43PM +0100, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
> modem dialup users know better than to chime in to networking core
> discussions and complain they don't need all that complexity. why do
> professional audio users always have to put up with people who only
> listen to mp3s whining about a complicate API?

Funnily enough, people who added SIGIO and epoll did not remove
select nor limited its capabilities.

The ALSA api has issues, whether you want to acknowledge them or not.
The OSS api has issues too, of course. But it is there to stay, and
it has advantages in some situations, like when simplicity or not
depending on a shared library matters. Ignoring it is stupid. Doing
your best to cripple it is stupid. The OSS api is an entrypoint in
the sound system as valid and important than others.

OG.