[alsa-devel] [PATCH RFC v3 3/7] ASoC: hdmi-codec: Add hdmi-codec for external HDMI-encoders

[Jyri Sarha]

On 08/17/15 21:41, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:07:55AM +0300, Jyri Sarha wrote:
>> On 08/14/15 19:18, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:30:41PM +0300, Jyri Sarha wrote:
>
>>>> +	/* Called when ASoC starts an audio stream setup. The call
>>>> +	 * provides an audio abort callback for stoping an ongoing
>>>> +	 * stream if the HDMI audio becomes unavailable.
>>>> +	 * Optional */
>>>> +	int (*audio_startup)(struct device *dev,
>>>> +			     void (*abort_cb)(struct device *dev));
>
>>> I'm a bit confused about what is going to use abort_cb() and why they
>>> wouldn't just call shutdown instead?
>
>> audio_shutdown() is for ASoC side to tell video side that audio playback has
>> stopped.
>
>> The abort_cb() is for video side to inform ASoC that current audio stream
>> can not continue anymore and it should be aborted. The similar mechanism is
>> currently in use in sound/soc/omap/omap-hdmi-audio.c.
>
> Someone reading the code needs to be able to understand this.
>

Ok, I'll improve the comment above.

Thanks,
Jyri