Re: [linux-audio-user] USB sound

[Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@boosthardware.com>]

I have moved this to alsa-devel as it seems more relevant to discuss there.

Speaker to Vegetables wrote:
> Not to be overly pedantic or anything, but putting stuff in the kernel 
> that doesn't have to be there would be the unprofessional thing.

But it will be a driver module right?

> Stuff 
> that goes in the kernel is harder to install and usually harder to use. 

huh?

> More importantly, bugs in code that goes in the OS kernel can easily 
> crash the whole computer, while userland code seldom crashes anything 
> beyond its own little process. 

I don't think it will be included in the kernel until it is sufficiently 
tested and then if there is a bug it will be found much quicker.

>The golden reason for putting anything 
> in a kernel-level driver is when that's the only way to get it to 
> perform well enough.
> 

Good point but then if then we shouldn't have included ALSA if that is 
true. The ALSA code base is large and having the usb midi module as a 
userland app seems to me to go against the precendant set by the rest of 
the modules.




> On Friday 28 June 2002 02:25 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> 
>>Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>
>>>i could write it soon if there were enough requests and reasons to
>>>do that.  (actually i had a half-finished code.)
>>>imo, however, if a user-land solution really works well, it doesn't
>>>make sense to write a new kernel driver.
>>
>>Ease of use/installation and professionalism. IMO people will be
>>happier if you include it internally. The only reason I can see for
>>it not to be is if an external api has better latency performance.
> 
> 



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