Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity

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Olivier Galibert wrote:

Make simple things simple, guys.

Sorry for hijacking the thread, but it is very true. ALSA is just too flexible so that the ALSA equivalent (if it indeed exists) of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339951 cannot be fixed. OSS allows specification of device name, and one can set up udev rules so that e.g. /dev/dsp-creative it is always a symlink to a SB PCI sound card and /dev/dsp-fortemedia is for FM801. Then one can tell xine to play sound through /dev/dsp-fortemedia. ALSA accepts only numbers in its plughw:x,y,z notation, and applications are unfixable when kernel device numbers become random.

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Alexander E. Patrakov
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