On 2014-12-01 17:14, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > + AS_HELP_STRING([--with-fftw],[Build FFTW-using module (equalizer). Note: the module has known-wrong DSP logic])) > +AS_IF([test "x$HAVE_FFTW" = "x1"], ENABLE_FFTW="yes (BAD IDEA)", ENABLE_FFTW=no) > +===== WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ===== > +You have fftw support enabled. fftw is used only by > +module-equalizer-sink, which has many bugs, including wrong DSP > +logic. See details at: > + > +http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2014-March/020174.html > +https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41465 > +https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54881 > +https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69229 > + > +It is suggested that you reconsider, unless you are a DSP > +specialist willing to fix or rewrite the code and submit patches. Please take it down a notch or two. Ok, so module-equalizer-sink has known crashers. So has module-dbus-protocol [1], but we don't go all nuts like the above over module-dbus-protocol. Ok, so module-equalizer-sink has "wrong DSP logic". But yet, people find it useful. Hence, DSP logic seems to be something that concerns DSP people more than casual listeners, who does not even know what "wrong DSP logic" means in practice. And since you seem to be the closest to a DSP specialist we have in this community, I'm sure it would be more appreciated if you spend time fixing the sink, rather than trying to take it down. That said, I don't mind a warning message or two when trying to load a module that has known crashers, and that we don't have time/energy to fix. But the extent of the warning messages above makes this look more like "vendetta" and less like "politely inform the user". IMO. As for building by default, I don't have a strong opinion on whether we do that or not - distros will disable or re-enable as they see fit anyhow. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic [1] AFAIK - I don't think Tanu has fixed all of them yet, but Tanu knows this better than I do.
