[alsa-devel] Rawmidi vs. /dev/snd/*

[Paul D. DeRocco]

In writing an embedded app that will be the only thing talking to MIDI, and
in which I don't need any timing or routing capability, is there any reason
to use ALSA Rawmidi, as opposed to merely reading and writing the device via
the file system? Which is the lower-level, and therefore most efficient,
interface? I'm leaning toward the latter, because I already know how to use
poll() to wait for incoming data on multiple input devices, but I don't see
how to do that via Rawmidi.

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