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To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: SNDCTL_DSP_SUBDIVIDE 
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> <MY VIEW OF THE WORLD>
> The latter is something the application should _not_ do since the
> amount of kernel buffering depends on a variety of factors (audio
> hw, avai. memory, CPU speed, system load, etc.) which the application
> has no way to know, and is better left to the driver.
> 
> On top of this, few if any applications are prepared to handle
> situations where the kernel says "sorry I cannot handle this request".
> 
> The sensible way to operate would be, in my opinion, to let the kernel
> use how much buffering it decides to, and check the amount of queued
> data before writing, if one really wants to keep queues short.
> </MY VIEW OF THE WORLD>
> 

I wish I could turn the clock one year right before the new sound
driver project started. It is teaching this old man a good lesson.


	Good Nite,
	Amancio



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