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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Cc: Adam Tla?ka <atlka@pg.gda.pl>,
	ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, perex@suse.cz,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round (v2)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:39:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152578344.21909.12.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060710235934.GC26528@dspnet.fr.eu.org>

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 01:59 +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> ALSA lib has something like 7 different methods just to play a sound.
> Their view of "low level" is quite interesting.  Using it is pure
> hell.  Debugging what you've done is worse.  And don't bother to hope
> that your code will still work in six months.
> 

A small FAQ:

Q: But OSS is kewl and ALSA sucks!
A: The decision for the OSS->ALSA move was four years ago.
   If ALSA sucks, please help to improve ALSA.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-11  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-07 23:17 OSS driver removal, 2nd round (v2) Adrian Bunk
2006-07-07 23:50 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-08  0:00   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-08  1:30   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-09 15:18   ` [Alsa-devel] " Lee Revell
2006-07-09 16:08     ` Olivier Galibert
2006-07-10 11:28     ` Adam Tlałka
2006-07-10 13:18       ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-07-10 13:57       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-10 22:48       ` Lee Revell
2006-07-10 23:38         ` Adam Tlałka
2006-07-10 23:51           ` Cloning sound output [was Re: [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round (v2)] J.A. Magallón
2006-07-10 23:51           ` [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round (v2) Lee Revell
2006-07-10 23:59           ` Olivier Galibert
2006-07-11  0:39             ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-07-11  6:59               ` Adam Tlałka
2006-07-11  7:02                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-11  7:58                 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2006-07-11  9:08                   ` Adam Tlałka
2006-07-11  9:52                     ` Jaroslav Kysela
2006-07-11 11:18                       ` Diego Calleja
2006-07-11 11:29                       ` Adam Tlałka
2006-07-11 10:28                     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-11  2:09           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-11  6:15             ` Adam Tlałka
2006-07-11 14:30               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-11 16:57                 ` Lee Revell
2006-07-11 22:31                   ` Adam Tlałka

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