Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: 2.6.10-mm1: ALSA ac97 compile error with CONFIG_PM=n

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 17:49 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 5 Jan 2005 08:21:20 -0600,
> Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com wrote:
> > 
> > > At Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:25:40 -0600,
> > > Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com wrote:
> > > > [snip - how to get to the problem]
> > > > At this point, I get the window asking if I heard the sound (I did
> > not). If
> > > > I repeat the test after waiting a short period, it eventually succeeds.
> > >
> > > The default blocking behavior of OSS devices was changed recently.
> > > When the device is in use, open returns -EBUSY immediately in the
> > > latest version while it was blocked until released in the former
> > > version.
> > I suppose there was a "good reason" for changing the user level
> > interface in this way. Could you [or someone else] explain that and
> > if you would consider changing it back (to stop breaking old applications)?
> 
> It was discussed on alsa-devel in November.  Unfortunately, I can't
> find ML archive any longer...
> 

Heh, if you want the excruciating details, here are some pointers.  It's
a long thread, and unfortunately the threading is a little broken.

Here's a link to the technical part:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10008900

And here's the rant that started it:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10014826

Lee