re: kern/54229: audio in firefox stops playing

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/54229; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: Tetsuya Isaki <isaki%pastel-flower.jp@localhost>
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: re: kern/54229: audio in firefox stops playing
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 02:49:18 +1000

 thanks for fixing the /dev/sound semantics back to netbsd-7.
 
 > I personally think /dev/sound's such sticky behavior is the good old
 > days and is not suitable for modern system...
 
 please don't remove this feature.
 
 i've used it infrequently over the years and i'm fairly sure i have
 at least one script that relies upon it (even though they could be
 rewritten.)
 
 it would not be sane to keep /dev/sound as a valid device if the
 semantics of it were changed (ie, the sticky removed) since that
 is explicitly the difference between them (and something we
 effectively gained from OSS-compat.)
 
 thanks.
 
 
 .mrg.