[Asterisk-Dev] generate inside ast_read?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Carlos Antunes wrote:

> I ran asterisk without synchronous generation for a couple of hours feeding
> to clients music on hold and Allison samples and apparently, nothing bad
> happened. So, why not eliminate the synchronous thing altogether when a
> timing source is available (which should be all the time!)?

Because it is _not_ available all the time! Many people run Asterisk on 
platforms that don't have Zaptel/ztdummy, or they aren't able/willing to 
load kernel modules for that purpose.