Re: Fwd: Re: lib/50276: [PATCH] Portability fixes for ossaudio.c

[Antti Kantee <pooka%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/50276; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Antti Kantee <pooka%iki.fi@localhost>
To: rmh%gnu.org@localhost, rumpkernel-users%freelists.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: lib/50276: [PATCH] Portability fixes for ossaudio.c
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:18:31 +0000

 On 24/09/15 14:02, Antti Kantee wrote:
 > On 24/09/15 10:43, Robert Millan wrote:
 >>
 >> FYI:
 >>
 >> https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=50276
 >
 > If Hurd soundcard.h is missing those defines, doesn't it mean that some
 > ossaudio programs will fail to compile on Hurd?  Why isn't adding the
 > missing defines to the Hurd soundcard.h possible?  The ABI used by old
 > binaries will not change if you add new definitions, so I'm not sure I
 > understand your motivation for patching NetBSD sources here.
 
 Also, if you want to use just ossaudio on Hurd, wouldn't it be better to 
 use the in-(rump-)kernel ossaudio compat translator (sys/compat/ossaudio)?