From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Clemens Ladisch Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] add API to allow disabling period interrupts Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:16:35 +0200 Message-ID: <4BF12593.3040001@ladisch.de> References: <4BDABDDD.4050502@ladisch.de> <4BF1086F.9070900@ladisch.de> <4BF108E9.5020705@ladisch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118052437C for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 13:16:50 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Jassi Brar Cc: Takashi Iwai , pl bossart , General PulseAudio Discussion , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Jassi Brar wrote: > I am in favor of support variable hw_interrupt at lowest level, i.e, in > ring buffer driver, instead of disabling hw_interrupt altogether. Removing the constant-sized periods restriction would certainly be useful. However, it doesn't look as if anybody has the time to redesign the ALSA API, the kernel framework and all the drivers. Regards, Clemens