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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] ASoC: davinci-pcm: add cpu-dai health callbacks
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 19:54:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111002185434.GH2857@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <beb331a90431ab4dfefedc45f53e686df3bc3f61.1317417232.git.bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 05:23:02PM -0400, Ben Gardiner wrote:
> The CPU DAIs available to the davinci-pcm driver have the capability of
> detecting and reporting errors.

> Add callbacks to the struct davinci_pcm_dma_params passed to davinci-pcm
> from the CPU DAI.

This looks like something we should be doing at the subsystem level, the
DaVinci is far from unique in having the ability to detect errors at the
DAI level.

> This has several shortcomings:
> 1) It bubbles up to the user as underruns, not a fatal error -- some may prefer
> the former, I realize but the latter is more attractive to me. Same problem
> as with the previous patch in this series.

Why do you prefer a fatal error, and how do you distinguish a fatal
error from a glitch?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-02 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-30 21:23 [RFC 0/3] ASoC: davinci- pcm and McASP error detection Ben Gardiner
2011-09-30 21:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] ASoC: davinci-pcm: latch EDMA errors Ben Gardiner
2011-10-02 18:48   ` Mark Brown
2011-10-04  2:04     ` Ben Gardiner
2011-09-30 21:23 ` [RFC 2/3] ASoC: davinci-pcm: add cpu-dai health callbacks Ben Gardiner
2011-10-02 18:54   ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-10-04  2:05     ` Ben Gardiner
2011-10-04 11:06       ` Mark Brown
2011-09-30 21:23 ` [RFC 3/3] ASoC: davinci-mcasp: add cpu dai health callback Ben Gardiner

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