Re: [linux-audio-dev] those latency numbers

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On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Paul Davis wrote:

> I don't want to comment much on Guenter's driver. I find it
> regrettable that it was written, but I suppose it provides useful
> functionality for people with a certain mindset about OSS and the
> Hammerfall. Personally, I wish that driver did not exist. It also
> doesn't work (from a code inspection) in the way that a naive user
> might expect when it comes to accessing multiple "devices". If I was
> in therapy right now, I'd probably admit that I don't like the fact
> that Guenter managed to get the OSS API to support a card that I've
> claimed OSS cannot support.

:) In fact, Paul you probably shouldn't regret that this driver
was written, not exactly the version that is in the kernel, but in the
first place., .... wasn't that about the time when ALSA was thinking about
supporting cards with more than two channels ?

At the end I sent the driver to Alan, in order to make a statement to
everybody that Linux supports high quality cards. ... well I thought the
idea is not that bad.

Well there is a second statement which says, that it is astonishing
that despite of its age the OSS API had at least one good thing,
it was extensible, a feature that was definitely missing from the
ALSA API at that time.

.. anyhow, thinking about OSS vs ALSA nowadays is a definite loss of
time.

Guenter