Re: LINEAR24 userland format in audio(4) - do we really want it?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> Unfortunately file formats are standardized but the
> the way the audio APIs are implemented varies. :/
>
>> It's now no longer broken to handle 24bit WAV files.
>
> This is true, but audioplay is hardly the only
> consumer of the API and could easily be made to communicate
> with the kernel using 32-bit samples.
>
> What is the behaviour of everything in pkgsrc when thrown
> 24bit WAV files?

I'm not following.  Are you saying

  we should remove suppport from the kernel API for 24-bit linear?

  lots of stuff in pkgsrc should be fixed so it works better?