[patch] little-endian dmasound silently fails

[Brad Midgley]

> don't think this is dmasound's fault.  Luckily for us, many "broken"
> OSS-compatible apps tend to work just fine if we simply modify them to
> ask for AFMT_S16_NE not *_LE, though performance critical apps should
> be fixed with more effort.

is the app broken because it tries to use _LE formats?

i agree it's not optimal and reflects laziness on the developer's part to
try to make everything work as if it's little-endian, but that the api
allows it, right?

Brad
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