OpenJDK 6 build 12 source posted (directaudio/alsa backend)

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 12:54 -0700, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
>   
>> Mark Wielaard wrote:
>>     
>>> Although not in your changelogs, I saw you also included two of my fixes
>>> for the ALSA directaudio backend which I posted back in May on
>>> sound-dev, and which are included in icedtea already.
>>> - The sloppy open/close patch:
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/sound-dev/2008-May/000053.html
>>> - The ALSA native lock patch:
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/sound-dev/2008-May/000054.html
>>>
>>> Although it makes some applets that use some primitive sound output work
>>> better I never got a real response. Did you get someone from the sound
>>> team to look at these patches? They do seem to work for me and the few
>>> test users of those applets, but a full review by one of the sound
>>> engineers would be appreciated. They don't seem to be in the JDK7 tree.
>>>   
>>>       
>> No; the patches were not explicitly reviewed; Alex, please take a look 
>> at them.
>>     
>
> Thanks.
>
>   
>> Neither Gervill nor your patches have yet been incorporated into JDK 7.
>>     
>
> What is the reason for having them in JDK6, but not in JDK7?
>   

Just no one at Sun has gotten around to doing it yet for JDK 7.

-Joe