Re: [PATCH] docs: sound: kernel-api: writing-an-alsa-driver.rst: polishing

[Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 09:56:06AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>No, the point is that, if an irq handler misses the multiple period
>updates, it has to handle the situation in a single shot, and the
>offset gets corrected to the value within the period size;
>
i know. my point is that if that happens, something must have gone more 
or less terribly wrong already, and we should be thinking about how to 
prevent that, rather than how to "reliably" paper over the problem. but 
i suppose we can give the hardware some slack ... if more than two 
periods are configured.