From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Colin Guthrie Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Asynchronous notification in ALSA - I/O Plugin - Pulseaudio Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:11:11 +0100 Message-ID: References: <18027403.3701211352364970.JavaMail.root@intra> <20080521222936.GB12214@tango.0pointer.de> Reply-To: General PulseAudio Discussion Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080521222936.GB12214@tango.0pointer.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: pulseaudio-discuss-bounces@mail.0pointer.de Errors-To: pulseaudio-discuss-bounces@mail.0pointer.de To: pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 21.05.08 12:47, Takashi Iwai (tiwai@suse.de) wrote: > >>>> I have experimental patches to add async support to ioplug. With a >>>> quick test using jack plugin, it seems working somehow. Will post >>>> them alsa-devel now. >>> Thank you! I tested these with Firefox + Flash 9 + Pulseaudio, and while >>> sound output works, quitting any Flash application will freeze firefox. >> It's a showstopper, then. Could you figure out in which code does it >> freeze? My change is just to add async call, so it sounds like that >> another hidden bug is hit by my change... > > That freeze is an unfixable race condition that Flash has when > shutting down audio. > > See the explanation down on http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/267 I thought the whole point was that by adding async code to ioplug, the libflashsupport stuff wasn't needed and flash could just use it's native alsa support + alsa's pulse plugin.... or am I missing the point here? Col