Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] USB sound
From: Alexander Cart (Alexander_Carot_AT_gmx.net)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 10:55:14 EEST
What solution ever me as a bassplayer really would like to have the
opportunity to play into my iBook directly without using my external Quattro
(which works wonderfully btw) if I'm on tour and for network musical
performances (musicians playing live being in different locations). So
please let me know if there's anything going on and I'll take part !
Anayway I think everything that got tested and can be called 100% stable and
really useful why shouldn't it go into the kernel ?!
Regards
-- A l e x
on 6/29/02 12:08 PM, Joern Nettingsmeier at nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de
wrote:
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>
>> I have moved this to alsa-devel as it seems more relevant to discuss there.
>>
>> Speaker to Vegetables wrote:
>>> Not to be overly pedantic or anything, but putting stuff in the kernel
>>> that doesn't have to be there would be the unprofessional thing.
>>
>> But it will be a driver module right?
>
> not if it can be done in userland.
>
>>> Stuff
>>> that goes in the kernel is harder to install and usually harder to use.
>>
>> huh?
>
> depends. anyway, a crashing module takes down your system. a crashing
> demon dies rather more gracefully.
>
>>> The golden reason for putting anything
>>> in a kernel-level driver is when that's the only way to get it to
>>> perform well enough.
>>>
>>
>> Good point but then if then we shouldn't have included ALSA if that is
>> true. The ALSA code base is large and having the usb midi module as a
>> userland app seems to me to go against the precendant set by the rest of
>> the modules.
>
> which is why only the necessary parts are in the kernel. alsa-lib is in
> userspace.
>
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