It could very well be not necessary anymore. The reasons could be improvements
in Haiku, or it could be we are all using faster computers. Also keep in mind
that nightlies have serial debugging enabled and the kernel is compiled in
debug mode, for the alpha as well (but no serial debugging by default, there).
In any case, ideally the driver would not hard-code the buffer size, *_/but
figure it out dynamically./_* I know it does depend on some factors, but maybe
not much else besides sampling frequency and bit depth. A settings file may not
be a bad idea, it can help users now, and it can also help in the future for
cases where the automatic buffer size mechanism fails for whatever reason, once
it has been implemented.
Best regards,
-Stephan
