[alsa-devel] How does ALSA detect underrun in OSS emulation?

[Timur Tabi]

Takashi Iwai wrote:

> It's just as same as on ALSA native API, checks the validity of the
> current position reported by pointer callback in
> snd_pcm_period_elapsed().

Are you talking about this code in snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr_pos?

	pos = substream->ops->pointer(substream);
	if (pos == SNDRV_PCM_POS_XRUN)
		return pos; /* XRUN */

What if my 'pointer' function never returns SNDRV_PCM_POS_XRUN?  How else can I 
get an underrun detected?

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale