# HG changeset patch
# User William Pitcock <nenolod@atheme.org>
# Date 1242379209 18000
# Node ID cb93b500a36478139e063dcff26435a9de26fef6
# Parent  5166d34025ccba009b113b7a043dd23ccaa6c180
alsa-ng: Add more notes on this.

diff -r 5166d34025cc -r cb93b500a364 src/alsa-ng/TODO
--- a/src/alsa-ng/TODO	Fri May 15 00:49:04 2009 -0500
+++ b/src/alsa-ng/TODO	Fri May 15 04:20:09 2009 -0500
@@ -11,3 +11,17 @@
   majorly, I want to be able to just choose a soundcard and have it set up the mixer
   the right way on it's own. This is 2009, and this should be possible.
 
+Things that won't be reimplemented:
+
+- support for custom period sizes and buffer sizes. we want to use the ALSA defaults
+  since they provide the optimal values for each card. this means that specifying
+  period/buffer sizes is retarded.
+
+Notable differences between the old ALSA plugin and the new one:
+
+- tickless design:
+  The old ALSA plugin basically did a lot of polling. This does not, instead using
+  an event-driven tickless design using conditionals.
+
+- uses ALSA "safe" API subset:
+  Plugin should work correctly with all userspace plugins.