Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750887AbWAFAOq (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:14:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752181AbWAFAOq (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:14:46 -0500 Received: from ds01.webmacher.de ([213.239.192.226]:13245 "EHLO ds01.webmacher.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750887AbWAFAOo (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:14:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1136504460.847.91.camel@mindpipe> References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <20060103193736.GG3831@stusta.de> <20060104030034.6b780485.zaitcev@redhat.com> <1136504460.847.91.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4A284096-E889-4E6D-B017-B8241CD72A0D@dalecki.de> Cc: Hannu Savolainen , Takashi Iwai , linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, LKML Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Marcin Dalecki Subject: Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 01:14:28 +0100 To: Lee Revell X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1111 Lines: 27 On 2006-01-06, at 00:40, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:06 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote: >> We have not received any single bug report that is caused >> by the concept of kernel mixing. >> Kernel mixing is not rocket science. All you need to do is picking a >> sample from the output buffers of each of the applications, sum them >> together (with some volume scaling) and feed the result to the >> physical >> device. > > Hey, interesting, this is exactly what dmix does in userspace. And we > have not seen any bug reports caused by the concept of userspace > mixing > (just implementation bugs like any piece of software). This attitude that every kind of software has to have bugs is blunt idiotic tale-tale bullshit just showing off complete incompetence. Does the acronym car-ABS and micro-controller maybe perhaps ring a bell for you? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/