[alsa-devel] snd_dummy on Centos - Redhat

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Fri Sep 4 13:02:18 CEST 2009


At Fri, 4 Sep 2009 12:38:46 +0200,
Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Takashi Iwai<tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > BTW, I added another patch to snd-dummy driver in sound-unstable tree.
> > Now it doesn't allocate the real buffers but fakes.  It would save
> > lots of memory when you run lots of substreams.
> 
> SUPER! By the way, I was also using the bh for spinlocks, so it do not
> uses irq heavily...
> But anyway, when we'll be out from this, I will try to see if I can
> contribute some of my hacks (if I can overcome the shame ;-) ).

Any patches are appreciated, of course.

It'd be helpful, though, if you can rebase your changes against my
latest version.


thanks,

Takashi


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