[alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/9] Misc fixes related to rewinds

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

14.09.2014 14:53, Raymond Yau wrote:
>
>  >
>  > Note: this series touches pcm_dmix.c, but does not make it rewindable. In
>  > other words, a variant of the test in [2] now produces a tone instead of
>  > failing due to snd_pcm_rewind() returning 0. But it should ideally
> produce
>  > silence. Obviously, there is some bug left that I have not pinpointed
> yet.
>  >
>
> It is better to let dmix not support rewind and force your rewind
> program to fail
>
> You rewind program should not affect the other application playing
> through dmix

Sorry, you are not an author of a single line in dmix (although you do 
understand how it works), so I cannot just blindly follow this request. 
OTOH, I was about to ask the same "should it work" question.

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Alexander E. Patrakov