Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] update for ALi Audio Driver (0.14.10) | Date | Thu, 6 Jun 2002 19:47:58 -0400 (EDT) |
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> Why? Hardware semaphores are notorious for causing hangs. Nobody is > sharing the hardware under Linux, so I think we should enable access on > init, and not disable access until driver close. IMO the mixer should > be guarded by a Linux kernel semaphore... I have a patch from Thomas > Sailer (I think) lying around somewhere that does just that to the via > audio driver. Maybe we can adapt it. > (I cc'd this little detail, in my ali/trident.c patch review, to you)
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