Just for fun, I was looking at adding ALSA sound to a video4linux video capture card driver. I was wondering, does it make more sense to have the ALSA portion reside in a separate driver, or integrated with the v4l driver for the card?
All the docs I've read about writing an ALSA driver indicate that the kernel APIs really lend themselves to be standalone drivers. But this would cause a lot of duplicate code at least, and resource contention at worst, since a lot of times it seems the audio hardware is integrated right with the video capture device or chip. On the other hand, integrating ALSA into a v4l device seems very complicated (just because v4l device drivers seem complicated to me). I do know that at least one v4l driver has OSS support in it... I don't know whether that has any bearing on the principle of integrating sound and video into a single driver, and I do not know if ALSA has ever been integrated with a v4l driver in the past. Thanks for your input. - D ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
