Fix for PPC audio devices that can't reendianize samples

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Iain Sandoe wrote:
> > Well, actually, I'd like to lose all the translation stuff (rate conversion,
> > format conversion etc.).  This belongs in User-Land and is preventing me
> > from implementing mmio (which would be useful for the more serious
> > applications).
>
> Ok, so why not just take it out, and have the driver printk() a message if
> userspace tries to force it to accept an audio format it doesn't know,
> saying basically, "Please ask the developers of the software to properly
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
You can even printk() the name of the program.

> query the OSS device for supported formats"? If that's really the way
> you'd prefer it to be, really nothing else is going to make people sit up
> and pay attention other than just saying "Ok, this behavior is now broken,
> not just deprecated, but BROKEN".

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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