From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262276AbUKVSQh (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:16:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262258AbUKVSPJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:15:09 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:22757 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262293AbUKVSOE (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:14:04 -0500 Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] ALSA PCI drivers: misc cleanups From: Lee Revell To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Adrian Bunk , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Courtier-Dutton In-Reply-To: References: <20041121235855.GI13254@stusta.de> <1101088632.5119.2.camel@krustophenia.net> <1101145386.2873.2.camel@krustophenia.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:14:01 -0500 Message-Id: <1101147241.2873.23.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 18:55 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Nope. Any idea what this is/was for? I poked around the OSS driver and > > could not find a similar function. > > IIRC, it came from the very old version of OSS emu10k1 driver. > OK. If this code was in the original opensource.creative.com driver then there is always the chance it embodies some knowledge of the hardware that we don't have. For example set_loop_stop, which was also in the OSS driver but unused, can be used to start multiple channels in sync. But as long as the CVS history is available this should not be a problem. Lee