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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
Cc: alsa-devel <alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Question about kernel timers
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:14:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154099690.2927.133.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44C9C403.8040301@superbug.co.uk>

On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 09:00 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> What is the purpose of these event timers?
> I can't think of any sound card that needs this sort of stuff.
> Can you use polling instead?
> 

It's a driver for a MIDI device that has to snoop the MIDI stream for
note-on/note-off and perform several operations on some custom hardware
- one immediately, and two more many milliseconds later.

Lee


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-28 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-25 22:01 Question about kernel timers Lee Revell
2006-07-28  1:18 ` Lee Revell
2006-07-28  7:01   ` Clemens Ladisch
2006-07-28  8:00 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-07-28 15:14   ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-07-28 10:06 ` Takashi Iwai

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