Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:12:04 +0100 | | From | Olivier Galibert <> | | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] userland swsusp |
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On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:57:11PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 18:02 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:05:00PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Now... if something can be > > > done in userspace, it probably should. > > > > And that usually means it just isn't done. Cases in point: > > multichannel audio software mixing, video pixel formats conversion. > > What are you talking about? ALSA does mixing in userspace, it works > great.
You have an interesting definition of "great".
1- It doesn't work without an annoyingly complex, extremely badly documented user configuration. To the point that it doesn't work in either an out-of-the-box, updated Fedora Core 3 nor an out-of-the-box gentoo.
2- It doesn't work for programs that do not use the annoyingly complex and horribly documented alsa library, which includes everything that still uses OSS[1].
You call that great? Multiple audio streams is such a basic feature it should work, period. No if, no buts, and no obligatory library. Which doesn't preclude having it in userspace, mind you. But it should never have been the _application_'s responsability.
OG.
[1] Which is so easier to use for normal programs' audio it's not funny. - 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/
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