Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 3 Nov 2000 22:39:15 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Poll and OSS API |
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > 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.
Considering that about 100% of the sound drivers do not follow that particular API damage anyway (they can't, as has been pointed out: the driver doesn't even receive enough information to be _able_ to follow the documented API), I doubt that there are all that many programs that depend on it.
Yes, some drivers apparently _try_ to follow the spec to some degree, but we should just change the documentation asap.
Linus
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