Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: 2.6.10-mm1: ALSA ac97 compile error with CONFIG_PM=n | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:04:38 -0500 |
| |
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 17:49 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 5 Jan 2005 08:21:20 -0600, > Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com wrote: > > > > > At Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:25:40 -0600, > > > Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com wrote: > > > > [snip - how to get to the problem] > > > > At this point, I get the window asking if I heard the sound (I did > > not). If > > > > I repeat the test after waiting a short period, it eventually succeeds. > > > > > > The default blocking behavior of OSS devices was changed recently. > > > When the device is in use, open returns -EBUSY immediately in the > > > latest version while it was blocked until released in the former > > > version. > > I suppose there was a "good reason" for changing the user level > > interface in this way. Could you [or someone else] explain that and > > if you would consider changing it back (to stop breaking old applications)? > > It was discussed on alsa-devel in November. Unfortunately, I can't > find ML archive any longer... >
Heh, if you want the excruciating details, here are some pointers. It's a long thread, and unfortunately the threading is a little broken.
Here's a link to the technical part:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10008900
And here's the rant that started it:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10014826
Lee
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |