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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: 'multi' plugin signals POLLOUT
	but	snd_pcm_avail_update() returns 0
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:24:33 +0100
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At Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:14:29 +0200,
Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> Heya!
> 
> There's a apparently a bug in the 'multi' plugin. When it is used it
> will pretty often signal POLLOUT when used with
> snd_pcm_poll_descriptors_revents() and the subsequent call to
> snd_pcm_update_avail() will still return 0. Doesn't look right to me.

Doesn't look right, indeed.
On which system setup does it happen?
Can you reproduce it via a combination of dummy driver so that I can
test it on my system, too?


thanks,

Takashi