Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751437AbWAEXlF (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:41:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752303AbWAEXlF (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:41:05 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:51158 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751115AbWAEXlC (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:41:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity From: Lee Revell To: Hannu Savolainen Cc: Takashi Iwai , linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, LKML In-Reply-To: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <20060103193736.GG3831@stusta.de> <20060104030034.6b780485.zaitcev@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:40:59 -0500 Message-Id: <1136504460.847.91.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 836 Lines: 20 On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:06 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote: > We have not received any single bug report that is caused > by the concept of kernel mixing. > Kernel mixing is not rocket science. All you need to do is picking a > sample from the output buffers of each of the applications, sum them > together (with some volume scaling) and feed the result to the > physical > device. Hey, interesting, this is exactly what dmix does in userspace. And we have not seen any bug reports caused by the concept of userspace mixing (just implementation bugs like any piece of software). Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/