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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: "Koul, Vinod" <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: alsa <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmciro.com>,
	Liam <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
Subject: Re: codec power question
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:25:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110315132542.GB10848@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300192047.19661.5.camel@vkoul-udesk3>

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 05:57:27PM +0530, Koul, Vinod wrote:

> In andriod, flinger opens the streams at boot and keeps them ON, and
> doesn't close the stream when in idle.
> Since the stream in ON, codec consumes lot of power, I was wondering if
> we have something in asoc to detect this kind of state and do much
> better power control.

Ah, this is just a plain userspace bug in the default ALSA thing that
went up on the Android git - there's no way sensible way to figure out
that userspace is playing silence because it's being silly.

The Nexus S libaudio does a better job here though it has its own issues
due to the integration with the non-mainline CODEC driver they're using.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-15 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-15  9:40 codec power question Koul, Vinod
2011-03-15  9:43 ` Koul, Vinod
2011-03-15 11:30 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-15 12:27   ` Koul, Vinod
2011-03-15 13:25     ` Mark Brown [this message]

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