Re: [Alsa-devel] Alsa Documentation

2001-10-04 Thread Josh Green
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 22:05, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > >Is there any documentation on ALSA 0.9.x? Also, will the "preliminary" > > >documentation on ALSA 0.5.x ever be updated? > > > > The equivalent documentation (i.e. the list of functions with > > descriptions) exists in the sourc

Re: [Alsa-devel] Use of mutexes

2001-10-04 Thread Paul Davis
>Off the top of my head, I can't see why developers >would choose mutexes over rw-semaphores. If you take >the write-lock then you have exclusive access to the >resource, exactly as with a mutex. There's nothing >that says you can't read the resource as well, and so >I don't really understand your

Re: [Alsa-devel] Use of mutexes

2001-10-04 Thread Chris Rankin
For example, any potential contention issue where two execution threads want to read the same data structures and don't want to write. A mutex serialises these threads whereas a rw-semaphore would allow them to execute concurrently. The only example I can think of off the top of my head is multip

Re: [Alsa-devel] Alsa Documentation

2001-10-04 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
> >Is there any documentation on ALSA 0.9.x? Also, will the "preliminary" > >documentation on ALSA 0.5.x ever be updated? > > The equivalent documentation (i.e. the list of functions with > descriptions) exists in the source and can be generated with > doxygen. It is not currently available online

Re: [Alsa-devel] Use of mutexes

2001-10-04 Thread Paul Davis
>I have noticed that ALSA tends to use mutexes a lot >for its internal locking. Has anyone ever considered >using rw-semaphores instead? The biggest impact would >probably be to the /proc filesystem since it would >allow multiple concurrent readers, but I suppose that >it might also reduce other c

Re: [Alsa-devel] Alsa Documentation

2001-10-04 Thread Paul Davis
>Is there any documentation on ALSA 0.9.x? Also, will the "preliminary" >documentation on ALSA 0.5.x ever be updated? The equivalent documentation (i.e. the list of functions with descriptions) exists in the source and can be generated with doxygen. It is not currently available online. There has

Re: [Alsa-devel] THE MAIL KING - ah13

2001-10-04 Thread dave willis
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, CC Computer Consulting Co. wrote: > According to experts, today's deluged direct mail recipient throws away > 26% to 88% of all their "junk mail" UNOPENED! > > Would you like to increase your responses by an average of 3 to 6 times?? that's funny. why would i want to pay som

[Alsa-devel] Alsa Documentation

2001-10-04 Thread Ricardo Colon
Is there any documentation on ALSA 0.9.x? Also, will the "preliminary" documentation on ALSA 0.5.x ever be updated? Lastly, is the ALSA 0.9.x MIDI API backwards compatible with 0.5.x? Thanks. -- Ricardo ___

Re: [Alsa-devel] hang up during latency test

2001-10-04 Thread Josh Green
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 08:58, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At 02 Oct 2001 14:25:03 -0700, > Josh Green wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 10:33, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > i'm trying to run latency test for ALSA9 (based on Benno's latency > > > suite) on my kernel to measure the latency

[Alsa-devel] Use of mutexes

2001-10-04 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have noticed that ALSA tends to use mutexes a lot for its internal locking. Has anyone ever considered using rw-semaphores instead? The biggest impact would probably be to the /proc filesystem since it would allow multiple concurrent readers, but I suppose that it might also reduce other co

Re: [Alsa-devel] hang up during latency test

2001-10-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 02 Oct 2001 19:33:45 +0200, I wrote: > > Hi, > > i'm trying to run latency test for ALSA9 (based on Benno's latency > suite) on my kernel to measure the latency with preemption and LL > kernel patches. > however, the test program hangs up almost always in the middle during > disk write

Re: [Alsa-devel] hang up during latency test

2001-10-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At 02 Oct 2001 14:25:03 -0700, Josh Green wrote: > > On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 10:33, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i'm trying to run latency test for ALSA9 (based on Benno's latency > > suite) on my kernel to measure the latency with preemption and LL > > kernel patches. > > however, the tes

[Alsa-devel] THE MAIL KING - ah13

2001-10-04 Thread CC Computer Consulting Co.
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[Alsa-devel] LGPL Time Code library release

2001-10-04 Thread Matt Flax
Hello everyone, This will probably be my last release for a little while. It is a set of header files which operate time code. There is also a GTK based X interface developed within for interaction with the time code. Available from : http://mffmtimecode.sourceforge.net/ Description : It is a C