On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Manu Abraham wrote: > Ok, so period should be the interval at which an IRQ is expected. > ie, if i set a buffer size for 40mS, the period should be 40, I guess. > > That said, what should be a recommended value for period ? If hardware > needs to generate an IRQ at the end of each period ? It's good to allow the lowledevel driver to pass all possible period sizes to the user space. The application does decision how many wakeups expects. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
