Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751058AbWAJOI0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:08:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751073AbWAJOIZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:08:25 -0500 Received: from gate.perex.cz ([85.132.177.35]:43157 "EHLO gate.perex.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751048AbWAJOIY (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:08:24 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:08:23 +0100 (CET) From: Jaroslav Kysela X-X-Sender: perex@tm8103.perex-int.cz To: Hannu Savolainen Cc: Lee Revell , Takashi Iwai , linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <20060103193736.GG3831@stusta.de> <20060104030034.6b780485.zaitcev@redhat.com> <1136504460.847.91.camel@mindpipe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 888 Lines: 24 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 ----- Jaroslav Kysela Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SUSE Labs - 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/