Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 5/6] sound/usb: pcm changes to use media token api

[Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>]

On 10/16/2014 08:01 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:10:37 -0600,
> Shuah Khan wrote:
>>
>> On 10/16/2014 06:00 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>>> On 10/14/2014 04:58 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>       switch (cmd) {
>>>>       case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_START:
>>>> +        err = media_get_audio_tkn(&subs->dev->dev);
>>>> +        if (err == -EBUSY) {
>>>> +            dev_info(&subs->dev->dev, "%s device is busy\n",
>>>> +                    __func__);
>>>
>>> In my opinion this should not dev_info() as this is out of band error
>>> signaling and also as the potential to spam the log. The userspace
>>> application is already properly notified by the return code.
>>>
>>
>> Yes it has the potential to flood the dmesg especially with alsa,
>> I will remove the dev_info().
> 
> Yes.  And, I think doing this in the trigger isn't the best.
> Why not in open & close?

My first cut of this change was in open and close. I saw pulseaudio
application go into this loop trying to open the device. To avoid
such problems, I went with trigger stat and stop. That made all the
pulseaudio continues attempts to open problems go away.

> 
> Also, is this token restriction needed only for PCM?  No mixer or
> other controls?

snd_pcm_ops are the only ones media drivers implement and use. So
I don't think mixer is needed. If it is needed, it is not to hard
to add for that case.

thanks,
-- Shuah

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Shuah Khan
Sr. Linux Kernel Developer
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