[alsa-devel] Use of snd_atomic_write_t for dshare and friends

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 07 Nov 2016 16:29:29 +0100,
Alan Young wrote:
> 
> Would it make sense for dshare, and other d-* plugins, to use a shared
> snd_atomic_write_t in the shared memory segment and associated
> snd_atomic_write_xxx() & snd_atomic_read_xxx() calls?

It's not recommended and not expected to work well always with DMA
buffer.  And above all, these calls were dropped in the recent
alsa-lib.


Takashi