From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: hdsp driver Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:12:55 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <20030303160758.C8AD014ECB@Cantor.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20030303160758.C8AD014ECB@Cantor.suse.de> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Paul Davis Cc: Takashi Iwai , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:11:16 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > >although the former doesn't allocate the buffer in advance by checking > >the pci id, but it will preserve the buffers at alsasound stop or > >restart operations just like the latter does. > > so when does it allocate them? when the allocator function (snd_malloc_xxx) is called from the driver. so, it wouldn't work exactly like snd-hammerfall-mem, which allocates by itself without call from the sound drivers. snd-page-alloc module just "caches" the buffer after the module unload/reload. but i don't think this would make so big difference, since the sound drivers are loaded likely in the early stage, anyway. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf