Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ossaudio: do not enable by default

[Peter Maydell]

On 5 November 2013 19:57, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> Since the oss code can fail to initialize without handling it
> gracefully, it really cannot be default on any platform.

Can you describe what the actual problem is we're trying
to fix here, please? I can't see a description of it
in any of the mailing list threads (there are references
to irc conversations but it's really not clear what the
actual symptoms are).

I have a system with no /dev/dsp, and it can build and
run systems fine (including passing 'make check') with
the oss backend as the (default-by-configure) only backend.
The only thing that happens is that there are a bunch of
warnings from ossaudio, like this:
oss: Could not initialize ADC
oss: Failed to open `/dev/dsp'
oss: Reason: No such file or directory
oss: Could not initialize ADC
oss: Failed to open `/dev/dsp'
oss: Reason: No such file or directory
audio: Failed to create voice `mm_ac97.in'

but they don't prevent make check from working,
they don't prevent systems from booting, and they
have been present for *years*.

I really don't see why you suddenly needed to
apply this patch despite the fact that most of
the response you got to it was negative.

thanks
-- PMM