[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/3] add API to allow disabling period interrupts

[Jassi Brar]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de> wrote:
> Jassi Brar wrote:
>> I am in favor of support variable hw_interrupt at lowest level, i.e, in
>> ring buffer driver, instead of disabling hw_interrupt altogether.
>
> Removing the constant-sized periods restriction would certainly be
> useful.  However, it doesn't look as if anybody has the time to redesign
> the ALSA API, the kernel framework and all the drivers.
No need to redesign ALSA API and certainly no need to change _any_ driver,
just like this interrupt disable call is optional so would period resize be.

I only ask to make this newly added call as period-resize rather than
a special case of period-disable.