Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:33:44 +0100 (CET)
From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Cc: Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Olivier Galibert wrote:

> - "A small demo which sends a simple sinusoidal wave to the speakers"
>   requiring close to 900 lines is demented.  That's the size of
>   glxgears.c, with 50% of that one being printer support.  A complete
>   smartflow example getting a sound stream on the network and playing
>   it with oss takes 160 lines, with 20 lines of copyright-ish at the
>   start.  The actual sound part of that is _30_ lines.

The pcm.c file shows you 7 available methods how you can send audio data 
to alsa-lib. It's complete example. If you remove the parsing command 
line, sine generation, error handling, you'll end with few lines too.

> - Error and state handling after writei changes depending on the call.
>   We're supposed to guess which one is correct?
> 
> Make simple things simple, guys.

Yes, we should stay with simple 1.0 linux kernel. Anyway, we're taking all 
points from this discussion.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs
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