Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:24:47 +0100
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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Hannu Savolainen <hannu@opensound.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>, Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>,
       Martin Drab <drab@kepler.fjfi.cvut.cz>,
       ALSA development <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
       linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity
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At Mon, 9 Jan 2006 02:33:43 +0200 (EET),
Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> > > - having a real kernel api for which you can make different libraries
> > >   depending on the need of the users
> > > 
> > > - stop making a fundamentally unsecure shared library mandatory
> > 
> > ALSA kernel API is real and binary compatible. 
> Less than an year ago you (or was it Takashi) told that the kernel API 
> cannot be used or documented because it may be changed any time without 
> notice.

Hmm, that might be me.  I meant as a merit of a common library as the
API entry.  Of course, the kernel API will be kept as much as possible
as we have done it so.


Takashi
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