Subject: Re: More questions about /dev/music behaviour
To: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@mail.augustsson.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/31/2001 21:44:17
Gavan Fantom wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>
> > Yes, this is what OSS does.  So the only reason we want it is to be compatible.
> > But if you think it's broken, maybe we should remove it?
>
> As far as correctness is concerned, I don't think it does any harm. For
> effeciency, I would be inclined to remove it.

OK, I'm not a MIDI expert. :-)


> One other issue though... the handling of Running Status seems to be
> slightly simplistic. There are a few exceptions and special cases that we
> might want to deal with.
>
> There's some detailed information on Running Status to be found at:
>
> http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/midispec.htm#Run

Please feel free to improve it!  Noone is working on the MIDI code these
days, so it would be great if you wanted to.

    -- Lennart