Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:43:21 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Subject: Re: [snddrv] proposal for ioctl change Message-ID: <199708071643.SAA00257@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199708071455.QAA13987@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Aug 7, 97 04:55:06 pm"
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In reply to Luigi Rizzo who wrote:
> [foreword: I do not want to criticise the Voxware interface; there
> is a reson why it is like it is. It's just that having rewritten the
> sound driver from scratch gives me a good chance to cleanup the
> interface...]
>
[explanation deleted]
> Are there objections or suggestions on the above ?
>
> In the process I will try to keep compatible with Voxware ioctls(),
> (since I have already implemented many of them, it won't cost me much).
This is most important, or we'll loose the sound game alltogether,
the Voxware/Linux sound system being as bad as it is, is _the_
standard that most sound apps are written for (doom, quake etc)...
I'm sure you won't dare loosing the ability to run those :)
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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