At Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:23:08 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > > From the keen-grasp-of-the-obvious department: > >This project would be a lot better off if there were > >better documentation, and (some) comments in the code. > >Why write the code if it's not going to be used? > >If it's not documented, it's not going to be used! > > actually, i have to note that this is not so obvious. there are *many* > people using ALSA. we've all sworn our way through the process. > > there is *no* point in reminding this list about the need for > documentation. the current state is pitiful, though just barely > adequate to get people started. many folks seem to think there is a > large group of people working on ALSA: there is not. it consists at > this time of just jaroslav and takashi as "full time" people, clemens > doing a fabulous job with some deep patch work, and then a few others > like myself dropping by with driver patches and occasionally new > patches. at this point hardly any of the linux-sound crew that has > held together the kernel's OSS-derived system have switched to working > on ALSA. patrick has done a great job improving what's on the website, > but there is still a long way to go. he has set up a system where you > can add to the per-card documentation yourself, which is a good place > to begin.
thanks Paul, a nice counterargument :) regarding 16bit DMA mode: there was some descriptions about this switch. together with the change of ALSA structure and the API, the implementation of 16bit DMA mode switch has been changed much, too, and the description was removed since it's obsolete. and it wasn't a big problem because less and less people are using the sb card nowadays... i'm thinking of starting ALSA-howto project again for a new ALSA version. then such info will go there. ciao, Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
