From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 25 18:51:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA28402 for current-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 18:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (jonny@[146.164.5.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA28375; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 18:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA03751; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 22:50:55 -0300 (EST) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199709260150.WAA03751@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: pcm device has a conflict with FreeBSD(98)? (Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa/snd In-Reply-To: <199709241602.SAA21966@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Sep 24, 97 06:02:02 pm" To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 22:50:55 -0300 (EST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, luigi@iet.unipi.it, jmg@FreeBSD.ORG, kato@migmatite.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp, iwasaki@pc.jaring.my X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Luigi Rizzo) // * the new sound driver is meant to have a single device, named "pcm" // (or whatever) which incorporates the functionalities of all // subdevices; so "sb", "wss", "gus", "trix", etc are going to // disappear anyways; Is it really needed to include support for ALL kinds of sound cards if I need just one ? This is not scalable. I would prefer a common framework for audio devices, and stubs for each card family. Maybe two separate frameworks, if synthesizer support is added someday. Jonny PS: What about audiopcm, pcmaudio, or simply audio for the device name ? -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67