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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Tjeerd Mulder <tjeerd.mulder@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i810_audio 2.4.0-test11
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:23:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001203222300.B165@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A278916.6FF0C5DE@fujitsu-siemens.com> <E141ppq-0000DP-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E141ppq-0000DP-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from Alan Cox on Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 01:02:39PM +0000

Hi!

> > It implements mono output and fixes a bug in the dma logic (reset necessary 
> > because some descriptors are already prefetched and are not updated
> 
> This is wrong. Linus please do not apply this patch, or if you have done back
> it out. Not only does it do format conversions in kernel (which is a strict
> not to be done in the sound driver policy) it also makes it impossible to make
> mmap work correctly with the OSS API definitions.
> 
> Tjeerd. I deliberately applied only small bits of your patch before because
> the mono mode stuff clutters the driver horribly and is not in the right place.
> It belongs in the application/libraries

Then you should kill parts of drivers/usb/audio - it contains format conversions.
-- 
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-04 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-01 11:18 [PATCH] i810_audio 2.4.0-test11 Tjeerd Mulder
2000-12-01 13:02 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-03 21:23   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2000-12-04 11:37     ` Alan Cox
2000-12-04 13:45       ` Thomas Sailer
2000-12-04 16:37         ` Jeff Garzik
2000-12-04 18:15         ` Alan Cox
2000-12-04 18:23           ` Thomas Sailer

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