22 Apr
2014
22 Apr
'14
12:03 p.m.
On Tue, April 22, 2014 5:44 am, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
For the N-th time I've set aside a day to try and
read
some of the ALSA documentation. For the N-th time I've
completely lost my way in a web consisting of
* The complete lack of any documentation that
explains the concepts, the big picture, and
the terminology.
* Completely useless docs, of the form:
function xxx_set_yyy (parm_zzz)
sets the yyy of xxx to zzz.
or similar, in other words something generated
automagically and completely uninformative and
redundant. In particalur if it's impossible to
find out what yyy is supposed to be or do in
the first place.
* Uncomprehensible English.
* When trying to learn something from actual
source code or examples, layer upon layer of
syntactic sugar making it virtually impossible
to understand what's going on.
Cleaning up this stuff would make a good project for some students to get
involved with. I wonder if there are any university professors who could
organise such a project?
Otherwise we (LAD) could pitch it to SUSE/Ubuntu/redhat/etc... or the
Linux Foundation as something that needs some funding support.
All this more than ten years after ALSA was
announced. I *do* understand those hardware
manufactureres who just refuse to try and
write an ALSA driver.
Alsa-devel is a very heavy traffic list. There are a lot of companies
providing support but they seem to be mostly mobile chipset drivers.
In this case my very humble endeavour was just
to find out if or not it would be possible to
create something similar to the alsa_jack plugin
that would actually present itself as a sound
card, so that (badly written) apps would be
prepared to use it.
If someone knows the answer to that question
and can also explain it I'll commend him/her
in my prayers.
--
FA
A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia.
It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris
and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)
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