Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932671AbWAFSh2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:37:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932717AbWAFSh1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:37:27 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:35541 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932671AbWAFSh0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:37:26 -0500 Subject: Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity From: Lee Revell To: Stefan Smietanowski Cc: Hannu Savolainen , Takashi Iwai , linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, LKML In-Reply-To: <43BE86BE.3010203@stesmi.com> References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <20060103193736.GG3831@stusta.de> <20060104030034.6b780485.zaitcev@redhat.com> <1136504460.847.91.camel@mindpipe> <43BE86BE.3010203@stesmi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:37:24 -0500 Message-Id: <1136572645.17979.24.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 777 Lines: 19 On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 16:03 +0100, Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > I can't remember if it was about OSS, ALSA or anything else but I > believe the conclusion was that sound mixing does NOT belong in the > kernel and SHOULD be done in userspace. Well, sound mixing really belongs in hardware, but that seems to be a lost cause - vendors are way too cheap these days. I can't believe they managed to hoodwink Windows gamers into accepting a new generation of sound devices that make the CPU do the work the hardware used to do... Lee - 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/