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From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:48:07 +0000
Subject: Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity
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To: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
Cc: Hannu Savolainen <hannu@opensound.com>, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:03:26PM +0100, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> > Having dmix working in user space doesn't prove that kernel level mixing 
> > is evil. This was the original topic.
> 
> Wasn't there a thread a few years ago (3-5?) about sound mixing in the
> kernel?
> 
> I've tried searching for it but have been unsuccessful so I could be
> remembering wrong.

  "The kernel is an arbitrator of resources it is not a shit bucket for
   solving other peoples incompetence." -- Alan Cox

Here's the post:

  http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0105.3/0324.html


Erik

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