From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannu Savolainen Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:49:23 +0000 Subject: Re: which is preferred interface: SOUND_PCM... or SNDCTL_DSP... ? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Britton wrote: > > I was under the impression that the SOUND_PCM ioctls were now preferred, > but I don't see any equivalent for SNDCTL_DSP_GETBLKSIZE. Am I just > missing it or is the old format still used for some things (or am I > confused which is the old format)? The SOUND_PCM ioctls are completely obsolete and they exist only to provide compatibility with some older applications. Use the SNDCTL_ ones instead. The OSS Programmer's Guide is available at http://www.opensound.com/pguide and it documents all supported ioctl calls. Best regards, Hannu ----- Hannu Savolainen (hannu@opensound.com) http://www.opensound.com (Open Sound System (OSS)) http://www.compusonic.fi (Finnish OSS pages)