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From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Andy Ng <andreas2025@gmail.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: Closing the pcm streams
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 09:58:09 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160219042809.GL19598@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAVaN8wroWe7xQCAnSsx_G0ruuRLiDivL2oXuFZ7U9YGGTsRow@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 06:46:04PM +0000, Andy Ng wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am working on a system that a DSP provides the audio algorithms and
> in case where the DSP crashes, I would like to shutdown nicely any
> opened PCM streams.
> The DSP has an RPC protocol to the external world. I use a small
> watchdog on ARM to monitor the "health" of the DSP. When the DSP goes
> down, I reset it. However, I would like to close down smoothly the PCM
> streams and inform the user that there was an error while playing.  Is
> there any way to inform the ALSA kernel framework in the kernel that a
> specific PCM stream gone bad? Where is the best point to reset ALSA
> kernel framework?

In your driver...

You can call snd_pcm_stop() on all the streams and then return an error on
commands, usermode may close and restart again

-- 
~Vinod

      reply	other threads:[~2016-02-19  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-18 18:46 Closing the pcm streams Andy Ng
2016-02-19  4:28 ` Vinod Koul [this message]

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