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On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 05:33:43 +0200 (EET) Hannu Savolainen <hannu@opensound.com> wrote: > Then this is in no way an API issue. Many OSS drivers (including envy24) > create separete device files for each input/output channel (or device pair). > Applications can chose to open the first device file in for all the > channels or any combination of the devices in mono/stereo/n-channel mode. > > All this depends only on the driver implementation. There is nothing API > related. Any app can open the devices as usual without paying any > attention on the channel allocation (which is done automatically by the > driver). xmms (or whatever else consumer app) can open the device and ask > for stereo access. Equally well a DAB application can open the device and > ask for full 10 output channels (or anything between 1 and 10). No special > API features are needed for this. Hi, i would find it helpful if you always made it crystal clear about what version of OSS you are talking about: - your proprietary version - or the free one in the kernel Mixing these isn't helping the discussion. Flo -- Palimm Palimm! http://tapas.affenbande.org - 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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