Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 04 Nov 2000 02:26:46 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Poll and OSS API |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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.
While I'm thinking about the subject.. even after updating the API, the drivers still need to know what events to poll for.
AFAIK 99% of the drivers currently select to block on read/write/read+write based on file->f_mode, which works, but isn't really correct.
Jeff
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