[PATCH v2 1/3] ALSA: pcm: introduce INFO_NO_REWINDS flag
Takashi Iwai
tiwai at suse.de
Tue Oct 5 08:59:19 CEST 2021
On Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:24:21 +0200,
Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>
> When the hardware can only deal with a monotonically increasing
> appl_ptr, this flag can be set. In case the application requests a
> rewind, snd_pcm_rewind() will not return an error code but signal that
> the appl_ptr was not modified.
This modification itself is fine, but I guess that application may
still move the appl_ptr directly via SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_SYNC_PTR ioctl.
We need to verify the backward move there, I suppose?
thanks,
Takashi
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