Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity

[Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Hannu Savolainen wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> > Overloading interrupt handlers with extra things is evil (and I bet you're 
> > mixing samples in the interrupt handler). Even the network stack uses 
> > interrupts only for DMA management and not for any extra operations.
> You mean it's evil because nobody else is doing it? Then it must be  
> evil or rather voodoo.

No, I mean that it's quite obvious bad design, because you might increase 
interrupt latencies for other drivers.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs
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