[alsa-devel] [PATCH 6/6] ASoC/mpc5200: Add fudge factor to value reported by .pointer()

[Mark Brown]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 01:34:55AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> ALSA playback seems to be more reliable if the .pointer() hook reports
> a value slightly into the period, rather than right on the period
> boundary.  This patch adds a fudge factor of 1/4 the period size
> to better estimate the actual position of the DMA engine in the
> audio buffer.

It occurs to me that in terms of dealing with what's going on here this
probably is achieving exactly the same effect as Jon's code in that it
tells ALSA that things are a bit ahead of where the buffer started.