[alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/4] ALSA: core: let low-level driver or userspace disable rewinds

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

15.07.2015 06:23, Raymond Yau wrote:
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>  >
>  > I expected an answer in the form "XXX mW out of YYY, for
> such-and-such buffer and period sizes".
>
> The new parameter is to inform the application that  the application can
> only use sequential write and not random write

Please reread the description, it also works the other way:

"""Add new hw_params flag to explicitly tell driver that rewinds
will never be used."""

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Alexander E. Patrakov