Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:52:53 -0500 (CDT) | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [Emu10k1-devel] Re: Emu10k1 driver update |
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Rui Sousa wrote: > Actually there is no locking implemented for the ac97 codec mixer. > It never seemed worth it, even if there are potential races in the code. > To have two applications accessing the mixer at the same time is a _very_ > rare condition and the worse that can happen is to set a wrong volume > value. Anyway, I will give it another look and try to come up with a fix.
I have a patch in the wings which adds locking to mixer accesses, for via82cxxx_audio, because the lack of locking was causing problems. So, some people with some apps do indeed notice...
Jeff
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