Re: Number of sound channels?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:26:35 +0000 (GMT)


> > The commercial OSS did. We regard it as the wrong answer.
>
> Care to elaborate why? Or are you only referring to when the driver is
> attempting s/w mixing.

Specifically when it was doing software mixing in the kernel

> I'd have thought you'd want to be able to open the soundcard as many
> times as you want and 'grab' a subset of the available channels.

Yes. But you want to co-ordinate it with the esd type system at least.

> The only other approach would be to allow one open, export all channels,
> and then have a super-esd that subsequently re-exports to apps.

Yep

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