Satendra Singh Thakur wrote: > -Added an ioctl to read values of multiple elements at once > -Added an ioctl to write values of multiple elements at once > -In the absence of above ioctls user needs to call N ioctls to > read/write value of N elements which requires N context switches
And why are these N context switches a problem? > -Above mentioned ioctl will be useful for alsa utils such as amixer > which reads all controls of given sound card Is there a noticeable difference? Regards, Clemens