Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:37:54 -0600 (CST) | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i810_audio 2.4.0-test11 |
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Thomas Sailer wrote: > And before killing format conversion you should kill > the mmap stunt, because the format conversion complexity > (~25 LOC) is by far dwarfed by the mmap emulation stuff.
mmap -emulation- ?? Ug. Is Quake really worth that much? :)
> The underlying question is: > > - do we want an usb audio driver that supports the OSS > interface and with which most existing applications work
of course
> Anything in between is IMO silly. Killing the format > conversion drops the advantage of running many existing > applications but don't bring you much closer to the goal > of simplicity.
OSS has always implied that the software performs conversions when the hardware cannot support certain formats. And the kernel direction has always been to -remove- any software conversion code. We removed SoftOSS, for example.
Jeff
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