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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:37:54 -0600 (CST)
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com>
To: Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>
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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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