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.
