From: Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul@gmail.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: Accessing alsa device in kernel space.
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:29:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708062229.46691.anarsoul@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hzm14d9k7.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
On 6 August 2007 you wrote:
> At Sun, 5 Aug 2007 19:11:23 +0300,
>
> Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
> > Hi, how to access to alsa device from kernel space?
> > I want to create driver for virtual soundcard, that will perform mixing
> > and rate converting in kernelspace, and put result in real hardware. But
> > I found no documentation how to open alsa device in kernel space :(
>
> You shouldn't do it. It'd be horribly messy.
> If you'd like to access the device files of other hardwares, simply
> use the user-space solution.
>
>
> Takashi
Btw, why there's oss-emulation in kernel? AFAIK it can't use pcm-plugins (e.g.
dmix), so oss-applications that try to play through /dev/dsp can't produce
any sound, or they block soundcard and other programs can't use it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-06 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-05 16:11 Accessing alsa device in kernel space Vasily Khoruzhick
2007-08-06 14:25 ` Takashi Iwai
2007-08-06 19:29 ` Vasily Khoruzhick [this message]
2007-08-07 9:34 ` Takashi Iwai
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