Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] /dev/itimer | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:32:34 -0400 |
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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
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