From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Sep 18 03:20:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA24559 for multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 03:20:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id DAA23934 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 03:15:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA09507; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:51:31 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199709180851.KAA09507@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Luigi's sound code not compiling? To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:51:31 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, mark@grondar.za, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199709180656.XAA07885@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Sep 17, 97 11:55:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > And the commit message was not that clear as to the impact to the > driver till it was too late :( May I ask where and when the select->poll change was discussed before the commit ? Just to listen to the appropriate groups and avoid similar problems in the future... > Now next are third party hardware developers with drivers -- hope > someone can reach them to tell them about this new wonderful > feature. I share the feeling... at the very least I wonder why the change has not been made in a way to insure backward compatibility, e.g. without changing procedure names and types, augmenting the values passed in former "rw" (now "events") parameters, and making checks on the return value more tolerant for old interfaces. Cheers Luigi