12 Apr
2023
12 Apr
'23
11:04 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 09:54:54AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
I'm thinking whether we need to change anything in the kernel side for this at all. Can't it be changed rather in alsa-lib side instead?
it could, but it would be a lot uglier. user space would have to do a "man-in-the-middle attack" on the data, while in the kernel we can just slightly modify the consumer. this would be particularly obvious in the case of write() access.