From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: Question about kernel timers Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:14:50 -0400 Message-ID: <1154099690.2927.133.camel@mindpipe> References: <1153864917.25859.238.camel@mindpipe> <44C9C403.8040301@superbug.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <44C9C403.8040301@superbug.co.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: James Courtier-Dutton Cc: alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 09:00 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > What is the purpose of these event timers? > I can't think of any sound card that needs this sort of stuff. > Can you use polling instead? > It's a driver for a MIDI device that has to snoop the MIDI stream for note-on/note-off and perform several operations on some custom hardware - one immediately, and two more many milliseconds later. Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV