Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Olivier Galibert wrote:

> Make simple things simple, guys.

Sorry for hijacking the thread, but it is very true. ALSA is just too 
flexible so that the ALSA equivalent (if it indeed exists) of 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339951 cannot be fixed. 
OSS allows specification of device name, and one can set up udev rules 
so that e.g. /dev/dsp-creative it is always a symlink to a SB PCI sound 
card and /dev/dsp-fortemedia is for FM801. Then one can tell xine to 
play sound through /dev/dsp-fortemedia. ALSA accepts only numbers in its 
plughw:x,y,z notation, and applications are unfixable when kernel device 
numbers become random.

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Alexander E. Patrakov
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