Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:46:24 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> To: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> Cc: Travis Poppe <tlp@LiquidX.org> Subject: Re: The latest WINE and /dev/mixer* Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0312281341130.23314@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20031228002408.GI20827@cnd.mcgill.ca> References: <20031227144106.35943fff.tlp@LiquidX.org> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0312280037370.13134@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <20031228002408.GI20827@cnd.mcgill.ca>
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On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Mathew Kanner wrote: >> That way we cannot even use autoconf to detect support for the >> SOUND_MIXER_INFO ioctl; why do we pretent to support something >> which we actually don't? > I can see good arguments both ways. My instinct says to have > all the IOCTLs that are defined in other OSes oss support and let the > app decide what to do. I could be persuaded otherwise. Hmm, I can see this point as well. OTOH, properly written applications check return values/error codes after invoking ioctl-s, and then will bail out when encountering such a dummy (as was the case with Wine). > I really like it. Adding support for SOUND_MIXER_INFO isn't > hard work, it's grunt work to that touches most drivers. It might > turn up soon :) Even better. :-) > I think that [patch] would be great. Hopefully, they can take > the ifdef FreeBSD out. I submitted the patch with the #ifdef (to increase the change of acceptance <g>), but offered an alternate patch without the #ifdef. Gerald -- Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry) gerald@pfeifer.com http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/
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