From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751355AbWGJNSz (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:18:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751357AbWGJNSz (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:18:55 -0400 Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.89]:6662 "EHLO anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751355AbWGJNSx (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:18:53 -0400 Message-ID: <44B253BA.3030103@superbug.co.uk> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:18:50 +0100 From: James Courtier-Dutton User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Adam_Tla=B3ka?= CC: Lee Revell , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, ak@suse.de, perex@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round (v2) References: <20060707231716.GE26941@stusta.de> <1152458300.28129.45.camel@mindpipe> <20060710132810.551a4a8d.atlka@pg.gda.pl> In-Reply-To: <20060710132810.551a4a8d.atlka@pg.gda.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adam Tlałka wrote: > We have also almost no docs about ALSA drvier <-> ALSA lib interface which is a strange > in case of GPL'ed software if we want to implement a new hw driver. > > To implement a new hw driver, one does not need to know anything about the ALSA driver <-> ALSA lib interface. One simply implements a small set of functions, and ALSA does the rest. There is good documentation regarding what this small set of functions are and what they should do. James