Re: Remove xrun debugging?

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 17:45 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:43:24 -0400
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> 
> > Can the xrun debug feature of ALSA please be removed?  It was obsoleted
> > long ago by the latency tracing feature of the -rt kernel, and has not
> > been used to find a bug since 2004.  At this point it's just confusing
> > to users.
> 
> It still might prove useful for non -rt users. I don't know exactly how
> useful, but maybe it's really a documentation bug. Put a note in the
> helpfile that much finer debugging can be done with the -rt kernels.

I don't think it's useful at all - any bugs that it could have found
were fixed long ago.  I have not seen useful output from it in a year
and a half.

Lee



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