On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:30:00AM +0200, Henrik Austad wrote: > So loop data from kernel -> userspace -> kernelspace and finally back to > userspace and the media application? Huh? I wonder where you got that idea. Let me show an example of what I mean. void listener() { int in = socket(); int out = open("/dev/dsp"); char buf[]; while (1) { recv(in, buf, packetsize); write(out, buf + offset, datasize); } } See? > Yes, I know some audio apps "use networking", I can stream netradio, I can > use jack to connect devices using RTP and probably a whole lot of other > applications do similar things. However, AVB is more about using the > network as a virtual sound-card. That is news to me. I don't recall ever having seen AVB described like that before. > For the media application, it should not > have to care if the device it is using is a soudncard inside the box or a > set of AVB-capable speakers somewhere on the network. So you would like a remote listener to appear in the system as a local PCM audio sink? And a remote talker would be like a local media URL? Sounds unworkable to me, but even if you were to implement it, the logic would surely belong in alsa-lib and not in the kernel. Behind the enulated device, the library would run a loop like the example, above. In any case, your patches don't implement that sort of thing at all, do they? Thanks, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html