ALSA [Was: Paris summit]

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Lee Revell">

> Which is the vast majority of hardware these days.  By supporting OSS
> and only OSS they are turning a blind eye to hardware reality.

What I'm trying to tell you is that, at the moment, they don't have much of
an option. You can paint it as neglect on their part if you want, I would
prefer to paint it as essentially neglect on *our* part.

> It would not be as bad if these apps all had ESD support or whatever as
> those systems can all run on top of ALSA+dmix (of course it's kind of
> silly to run a software mixing daemon on top of ALSA's software mixer)

There are a lot of great reasons to use a good software mixing daemon
instead of ALSA's dmix mess.

> What do you think it would take to get them to reconsider this position?
> A commitment to a stable API/ABI from the ALSA developers?  I think that's
> doable.

API/ABI stability of a complex, unnecessary, undesirable interface is no
better - see my first reply about fixing it for actual solution suggestions.

- Jeff

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