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On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:19:36PM +0900, TAMURA Kent wrote:
> > You're missing the point here.  The NetBSD API allows all 3 actions.
> > OSS API doesn't allow action 3, so OSS application have no way to
> > figure out what a meaningful step is.
>=20
> Probably no one opposes making the OSS compat layer stateful.
> It should be compatible with Linux and FreeBSD.

That doesn't work.  A mixer can really be stateful if it can make
sure it intercepts all changes, so it can keep its state.  If some
other application changes the value behind its back, strange things
will happen (though, arguably, it will work if someone only uses
one application for mixer settings.  I, for one, use gkrellm-volume,
mplayer, mp3blaster and mixerctl all at the same time, depending on
what I'm doing).

And that's the pity of the issue:  you can have a stateless mixer on
top of a stateful one, but not the inverse.

To make things worse, we have no OSS compat layer at the kernel level,
it only consists of a userland library that rewrites the OSS ioctls().
That means OSS-only statefulness could only be per-process.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"Commala-come-five! / Even when the shadows rise!
To see the world and walk the world / Makes ya glad to be alive."
Susannah's Song, The Dark Tower VI, Stephen King, 2004.

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