Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] ALSA PCI drivers: misc cleanups

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:14:01 -0500,
Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 18:55 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > Nope.  Any idea what this is/was for?  I poked around the OSS driver and
> > > could not find a similar function.
> > 
> > IIRC, it came from the very old version of OSS emu10k1 driver.
> > 
> 
> OK.  If this code was in the original opensource.creative.com driver
> then there is always the chance it embodies some knowledge of the
> hardware that we don't have.  For example set_loop_stop, which was also
> in the OSS driver but unused, can be used to start multiple channels in
> sync.  But as long as the CVS history is available this should not be a
> problem.

Yep.  The code is just to calculate X * ln2(Y) (or something like
that), so anyway it's not important for the hardware control.


Takashi
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