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On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:56:52AM -0700, Garett Shulman wrote:

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> If you ask me... I would recommend that the alsa team drop all of the

> ambitions plugin stuff (except sampl rate & bit rate) 

Without `ambitious plugin stuff' like pcm_multi, nobody would be able

to use multiple sound cards with ALSA. The fact that pcm_multi has needed

patching since January 2005 to make it work in duplex mode with jackd

is only a minor inconvenience compared with not having it at all.
John