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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] /dev/itimer
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:32:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154446354.25983.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154443252.44cf67f4dd562@domainfactory-webmail.de>

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 16:40 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Edgar Toernig wrote:
> > this is a simple driver which provides interval timers via
> > file descriptors.
> 
> Interval timers are already available with ALSA (although ALSA's timer
> API is neither as simple nor as script-friendly as this one).

A generic timer interface like this one should not depend on sound
support.  As Bill Huey has mentioned, something like this would be good
on RT embedded systems, and ALSA is not something I would want to add to
an embedded system if I didn't need to.

-- Steve



      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-01 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-28 21:59 [RFC] /dev/itimer Edgar Toernig
2006-07-28 22:33 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-07-28 22:44   ` Edgar Toernig
2006-07-28 23:14     ` Nicholas Miell
2006-07-28 22:43 ` DervishD
2006-07-28 23:01   ` Edgar Toernig
2006-08-01 14:40 ` Clemens Ladisch
2006-08-01 15:32   ` Steven Rostedt [this message]

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