[alsa-devel] ASoC: sun4i-codec: playback stall and I/O error with DAPM paths all disabled

[Maxime Ripard]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:45:39PM +0800, wens Tsai wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 05:43:55PM +0800, wens Tsai wrote:
> >
> >> What is unexpected is any attempt to play anything under this state makes
> >> the playback software (in my case mpg321) stall, and later report an I/O
> >> error. My guess is that the DAC is still disabled by DAPM, so it doesn't
> >> send any DRQs, and thus the DMA engine is not consuming any data from
> >> userspace.
> >
> > This is normal for ASoC - like you say it'll be becasue the hardware
> > isn't powered up.
> >
> >> I think we should just enable the digital bits of the DAC/ADC all the
> >> time. Or maybe transfer and then discard data if the DAC is off. Not
> >> sure if this is doable though. I expect playback software to work, and
> >> not block, regardless of the hardware status.
> >
> > Powering things up all the time will have a major effect on battery life
> > for systems that care about that.  The expectation is that systems with
> > this sort of hardware won't normally be offering end users direct
> > control of the routing, it'll be something that's handled during system
> > integration.
> 
> Ok. So I guess one solution would be to move the mute controls out of
> DAPM, and maybe change some other mux like paths into actual muxes, so
> there's at least one usable path at all times.

I'm not sure that's even a requirement. IIRC, but Mark might correct
me, you just need to expose whatever the reset state is.

Maxime

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