Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 04 Nov 2000 01:18:27 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Poll and OSS API |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Thomas Sailer wrote: > > > > The OSS API (http://www.opensound.com/pguide/oss.pdf, page 102ff) > > specifies that a select _with the sounddriver's filedescriptor > > set in the read mask_ should start the recording. > > So fix the stupid API. > > The above is just idiocy.
We're pretty much stuck with the API, until we look at merging ALSA in 2.5.x. Broken API or not, OSS is a mature API, and there are spec-correct apps that depend on this behavior.
(FWIW, ALSA nicely marginalizes its OSS support into a single module, so that ALSA drivers aren't affected by OSS' ugliness)
Jeff
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