> #  
> # > I presume "cat foo.mid >/dev/midi" doesn't work?
> #  No, that could me made to work, but that requires roughly the
> #  same code in the kernel as a bare bone MIDI player would have.
> 
> Are we saying that this is undesirable period, or just more than you want to
> do now?  I can accept the latter, but I would really like to have the
> functionality available at some point for the former.  (with appropriate
> DONT_FILL_MY_KERNEL_WITH_CRUD options)
I think it would be a cool feature, but it has some unpleasent 
features (for the kernel) of you want to play MIDI files of
format 2 (which many are).

        -- Lennart