From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tristan Plumb <9p-st@imu.li> To: 9fans@9fans.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-Id: <2577c8.fe23c316.C0kk.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> In-Reply-To: References: <2577c8.0aa552af.tqKm.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:30:29 -0400 User-Agent: mx-alpha Subject: Re: [9fans] kw audio -- /dev/audio and friends Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6eac9138-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Changing a device's file format in a backwards-incompatible way > is not something to be done lightly. In addition to changing all > drivers you'd have to change every user program that reads from > or writes to them, even ones that you don't know exist. i am not offering to change the interface, but to implement a simpler third interface (as usbaudio implements volume). poor diction on my part. the point is that there are currently two semi-incompatable interfaces, do people consider the current two adequate? (apparently volume was not, and i don't consider audioctl to be). and what do other people think about an alternative? tristan -- All original matter is hereby placed immediately under the public domain.