Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:08:23 +0100 (CET) | | From | Jaroslav Kysela <> | | Subject | Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity |
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > > Overloading interrupt handlers with extra things is evil (and I bet you're > > mixing samples in the interrupt handler). Even the network stack uses > > interrupts only for DMA management and not for any extra operations. > You mean it's evil because nobody else is doing it? Then it must be > evil or rather voodoo.
No, I mean that it's quite obvious bad design, because you might increase interrupt latencies for other drivers.
Jaroslav
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