Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
Also more than four years exist another thing: generaly sound suport
in Linux kernel is broken by design. Points where it is broken:
1) ALSA API forces not use devices files and many things on sound
managing level are handled on user space library. This dissallow
<snip>
2) ALSA API is to complicated: most applications opens single sound
stream. All what system user expect it is plaing sound by more then
<snip>
3) ALSA kernel architecture is to complicated. This main reason why
configuring sound on Linux is SO COMPLICATED. From my system:
<snip>
ALSA is also requires much more bigger code size than OSS variant
(count all snd* modules size, jackd and libasound and compare this
with OSS modules and user space OSS library size). Simillar is on
<snip>
oh yeah. why is linux so fscking big? my olde msdos would fit on one
floppy. whiiine.
what a load of crap. alsa is a serious architecture meant for serious,
maximally efficient usage with all kinds of (wildly different) hardware.
desktop stuff and "you have mail" beeps are a fscking corner case.
this is like whining about the oh so complex networking infrastructure
and iptables and constantly reminiscing how simple it used to be to set
up a modem on /dev/ttyS0.
get real.
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