[alsa-devel] [PATCH 52/52] bebob: Add support for M-Audio special Firewire series

[Takashi Sakamoto]

Clemens,

Thanks for your quick reply.

 > Maybe we should change how these functions handle timeouts.  Any other
> error code indicates that the lock transaction failed definitely, but
> after a timeout, we don't know if it was the request or the response
> that got lost.
>
> We could try to read the register, and, if we see that the change that we
> tried to do actually happend, assume that our driver's transaction did
> this change.

How is attached patch for this idea?

> Are read transactions more reliable than locks?  If not, we might need
> to increase the number of retries for these devices.

This quirk is applied for all of transactions to these devices. As long 
as I expeciment, their reliability roughly the same.

As long as I tested with this patch, the current number of retries (3 
times) seemd to be enough for these devices. ALSA applications can 
safely use PCM character devices.

> This patch (no. 52) does not change the CMP code.

I had no plan to touch CMP codes for this patch because just two models 
have this quirk. But now I want to add this patch into my series of patch.


Thanks

Takashi Sakamoto
o-takashi at sakamocchi.jp

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