[alsa-devel] DMA over run on playback

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:37:03PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:

> You don't want this logic in an app, it needs to be in the kernel. You
> want the kernel to remember the longest observed latency. You don't
> want each app to have to rediscover this value.

Remember that the applications all talk to the kernel via the ALSA
libaray - it doesn't automatically follow that anything has to be done
in kernel.