Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751689AbWHAPdA (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:33:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751690AbWHAPc7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:32:59 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.55]:35299 "EHLO ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751682AbWHAPc7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:32:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] /dev/itimer From: Steven Rostedt To: Clemens Ladisch Cc: Edgar Toernig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bill Huey In-Reply-To: <1154443252.44cf67f4dd562@domainfactory-webmail.de> References: <20060728235951.7de534eb.froese@gmx.de> <1154443252.44cf67f4dd562@domainfactory-webmail.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:32:34 -0400 Message-Id: <1154446354.25983.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 815 Lines: 21 On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 16:40 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Edgar Toernig wrote: > > this is a simple driver which provides interval timers via > > file descriptors. > > Interval timers are already available with ALSA (although ALSA's timer > API is neither as simple nor as script-friendly as this one). A generic timer interface like this one should not depend on sound support. As Bill Huey has mentioned, something like this would be good on RT embedded systems, and ALSA is not something I would want to add to an embedded system if I didn't need to. -- Steve - 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/