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On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > And if the application doesn't support, who and where converts it? > > With OSS API, it's a job of the kernel. > > Once again no. Nothing prevents the kernel to forward the data to > userland daemons depending on a userspace-uploaded configuration. I think that the point was, that switching from userspace to kernelspace then to userspace again and back to kernelspace in order to do something, that could have been done directly in the userspace, and though could save those two unnecessary switches, is an unnecessary overhead, which may not necessarily be that insignificant if it's done so often (which for streaming audio is the case). Why doing things complicated when there is no evident gain from it, or is there? Martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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