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On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 03:32:27PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Yes, it's a known problem to be fixed. But, it's no excuse to do > > _everything_ in the kernel (which OSS requires). > > OSS does not require to do anything in the kernel except an entry > point. > > > > 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. But it's quite ineffecient. The kernel must switch tasks at least twice or more. It's the major problem with the current OSS API. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SUSE Labs - 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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