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.
next prev parent 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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