[alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/2] USB audio fixes

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

While trying to understand how asynchronous endpoints are supported, I
identified two major issues. On my M-Audio transit, the following
script tries to play using the 3 different endpoints supported and
fails (error and no audio) after the first playback without the
patches. With the patches on top of 4.1.5 or Takashi's for-next
(4.2.0-rc5), I stopped the audio after an hour.

while true
do
    aplay -d5 -Dhw:2,0 ~/16_48.wav # play 48kHz, 16 bit on async ep
    aplay -d5 -Dhw:2,0 ~/24_48.wav # play 48kHz, 24 bit on 'none'/async ep
    aplay -d5 -Dhw:2,0 ~/24_96.wav # play 96 kHz, 24 bit on adaptive ep
    aplay -d5 -Dhw:2,0 ~/24_48.wav 
    aplay -d5 -Dhw:2,0 ~/16_48.wav
    aplay -d5 -Dhw:2,0 ~/24_96.wav
done

The first issue is pretty bad with corrupted pointers. When
transitioning from a alternate setting with a sync_endpoint to another
which doesn't have one by construction (synchronous, adaptive, async
on capture), the pointers are not reset and the code tries to set the
parameters of a non-existent endpoint.

The second issue is that the M-audio Transit descriptors are illegal
but the logic can be changed without harm.

I sometimes hear noise on playback start, probably the code needs to
be changed to add enough silent samples to let the PLL lock. I haven't
had time to work on this and this is more of an enhancement.

Comments welcome.

Pierre-Louis Bossart (2):
  ALSA: usb: fix corrupted pointers due to interface setting change
  ALSA: usb: handle descriptor with SYNC_NONE illegal value

 sound/usb/pcm.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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