Re: kern/54177: playing audio in firefox doesn't work after kernel update

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/54177; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/54177: playing audio in firefox doesn't work after kernel
 update
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 18:59:35 +0200

 On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 04:55:01PM +0000, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
 >    -> there is a possibility that cubeb_oss.c is implemented for
 >       oss layer with some bugs (or weird compatibility) and
 >       it stops working after isaki-audio2 cleanup
 >  
 >  
 >  I'm afraid we need to prepare some bug-compatibility code for oss
 >  for unofficial firefox patch..
 
 I would not worry too much about binary compaibility for a single app that
 everyone *really* needs to update every other month or so.
 
 If the problem is well understood, the bugs in cubeb_oss.c are fixed and
 new binaries work fine with the new audio code, all should be fine.
 
 Martin