Re: Fix for PPC audio devices that can't reendianize samples

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Derrik Pates wrote:

On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Iain Sandoe wrote:

quoted

Well, actually, I'd like to lose all the translation stuff (rate conversion,
format conversion etc.).  This belongs in User-Land and is preventing me
from implementing mmio (which would be useful for the more serious
applications).

Ok, so why not just take it out, and have the driver printk() a message if
userspace tries to force it to accept an audio format it doesn't know,
saying basically, "Please ask the developers of the software to properly

                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
You can even printk() the name of the program.

query the OSS device for supported formats"? If that's really the way
you'd prefer it to be, really nothing else is going to make people sit up
and pay attention other than just saying "Ok, this behavior is now broken,
not just deprecated, but BROKEN".

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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