return NULL;
}
- /* Open the correct device. The base device name comes from the
- * AUDIODEV environment variable first, then /dev/dsp. The
- * control device tacks "ctl" onto the base device name.
- *
- * Note that the only difference between /dev/audio and /dev/dsp
- * is that the former uses logarithmic mu-law encoding and the
- * latter uses 8-bit unsigned encoding.
- */
-
+ /* Open the correct device: either the 'device' argument,
+ or the AUDIODEV environment variable, or "/dev/dsp". */
if (basedev == NULL) { /* called with one arg */
basedev = getenv("AUDIODEV");
if (basedev == NULL) /* $AUDIODEV not set */