Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 09:45:20PM +0900, Tetsuya Isaki wrote:
>  [*] On my alpha (500MHz), wss(4)/ISA works even on blk_ms=1.
>  But I was not able to set 1msec on yds(4) PCI sound card on
>  the same machine.  Its lower limit was 5msec (due to driver's
>  or hardware's restriction, I don't know details though).

It sounds wrong to hold users hostage to the restrictions of some
devices. Why does this have to be a constant anyway? It seems perfectly
sensible to me that the final output device can provide a lower limit as
well as having one derived from HZ and using whatever is higher.

Joerg