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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
	David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>,
	zonque@gmail.com
Subject: Re: USB Audio initialization race
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 10:49:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <523574A4.4010203@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1309142127140.6622-100000@netrider.rowland.org>

Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Sep 2013, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>> Alan Stern wrote:
>>> So here's my question: If the sound driver recognizes that interface B
>>> is connected with interface A when B is probed, why can't it recognize
>>> this fact when A is probed?  It could claim B while A's probe is
>>> running.  Then the sound card would be registered with the PCM
>>> component already in place.
>>
>> The sound driver already does this.
>
> It does?  Why does the comment preceding snd_usb_audio_probe() say:
>
>  * thus we check the usb device pointer and creates the card instance
>  * only at the first time.  the successive calls of this function will
>  * append the pcm interface to the corresponding card.

For UAC devices with correct descriptors, and for devices with multi-
interface quirks, the driver claims all interfaces at once.  But it is
still possible to have devices with zero or two audio control interfaces.


Regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-15  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-13 19:56 USB Audio initialization race David Henningsson
2013-09-13 20:39 ` Alan Stern
2013-09-13 20:53   ` David Henningsson
2013-09-13 21:06     ` Alan Stern
2013-09-13 23:47       ` David Henningsson
2013-09-14 13:44         ` Alan Stern
2013-09-14 19:33           ` Clemens Ladisch
2013-09-15  1:35             ` Alan Stern
2013-09-15  8:49               ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2013-09-16 22:21                 ` David Henningsson
2013-09-13 20:55   ` Clemens Ladisch

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