[alsa-devel] possible fix for buffer underruns on msm7k alsa driver

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 07:58:01PM +0200, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:

> >The last time I looked at MSM audio drivers I noticed several abuses of
> >APIs in there which make me concerned about the robustness of any
> >changes that one might make to the code.  I've no idea if this was the
> >same set of drivers as you are looking at, it's really unfortunate that
> >work on these drivers appears so fragmented.

> The reference code source is at:
> http://gitorious.org/htc-msm-2-6-32/leviathan-incoming/trees/android-msm-2.6.32-rebase/sound/soc/msm

That looks roughly like the problematic code I mentioned above.

> And the audio patch that I rebased were attached
> The most important one is that one:
> [PATCH 2/4] sound: soc: msm7k: improve buffer underrun issue

> There are only 2 patches.

Sorry, I'm a bit lost as to what the actual question is here?