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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: "Bedia, Vaibhav" <vaibhav.bedia@ti.com>
Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	"Afzal, Mohammed" <afzal@ti.com>,
	"lrg@slimlogic.co.uk" <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ASoC: Move symmetric rate check for substreams to hw_params
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:00:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110307150057.GL13471@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FCCFB4CDC6E5564B9182F639FC3560870370843B37@dbde02.ent.ti.com>

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 06:21:32PM +0530, Bedia, Vaibhav wrote:
> On Monday, March 07, 2011 5:39 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > This means that applications won't be constrained by the
> > current settings so can't automatically choose the required
> > rate.  ALSA is just fundamentally racy here, if you want to
> > reliably open bidirectional streams you need to serialise the
> > startup of the two directions.    

> When a custom application is written then the race condition can be avoided. 

> However right now a simple test like "arecord -f dat | aplay -f dat" fails. One way to make it work
> is to make sure that a call to arecord/aplay (or some dummy app which just sets some valid rate and returns) 
> has been made before both are invoked simultaneously.

For command line testing you can do something like:

  arecord -f dat | (sleep 1; aplay -f dat -) 

to insert a delay if required.  Obviously not all systems will hit the
race.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-07 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-07 11:56 [RFC][PATCH] ASoC: Move symmetric rate check for substreams to hw_params Vaibhav Bedia
2011-03-07 12:09 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-07 12:51   ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-03-07 15:00     ` Mark Brown [this message]

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