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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lrg@slimlogic.co.uk,
	sakari.ailus@maxwell.research.nokia.com, lennart@poettering.net
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v6 09/12] media: Entity locking and pipeline management
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:47:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011251647.45488.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101125135351.GD24208@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

Hi Mark,

On Thursday 25 November 2010 14:53:51 Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 03:28:16AM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Link states must not be modified while streaming is in progress on a
> > graph they belong or connect to. The entity locking API helps drivers
> > enforcing that requirement.
> 
> This is not desirable for embedded audio - for example, it is very
> common to wish to switch from headphone to speaker and back mid
> playback, or to move between headset, speakerphone and handset modes on
> a phone.  This is normally implemented by reconfiguring the output paths
> at runtime without interrupting applications.

Agreed. The locking should be made optional. I'll work on that.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-25 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-25  2:28 [RFC/PATCH v6 00/12] Media controller (core and V4L2) Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25  2:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 01/12] media: Media device node support Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25  2:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 02/12] media: Media device Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25  9:33   ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-11-25 14:42     ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25  2:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] media: Entities, pads and links Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25  9:38   ` [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] [alsa-devel] " Clemens Ladisch
2010-11-25  9:38     ` [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] " Clemens Ladisch
2010-11-25 13:41     ` [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] [alsa-devel] " Mark Brown
2010-11-25 13:41       ` [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] " Mark Brown
2010-11-25 15:29       ` [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] [alsa-devel] " Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25 15:35         ` Mark Brown
2010-11-25 15:35           ` [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] " Mark Brown
2010-11-25 15:21     ` [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] [alsa-devel] " Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25 15:28       ` Mark Brown
2010-11-25 15:28         ` [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] " Mark Brown
2010-11-26  9:10       ` [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] [alsa-devel] " Clemens Ladisch
2010-11-26  9:10         ` [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] " Clemens Ladisch
2010-12-13 16:10         ` [alsa-devel] " Clemens Ladisch
2010-12-13 16:10           ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-12-14 12:00           ` [alsa-devel] " Laurent Pinchart
2010-12-14 12:40             ` Hans Verkuil
2010-12-14 12:53               ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-12-14 12:53                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-12-14 13:49                 ` [alsa-devel] " Clemens Ladisch
2010-12-14 13:49                   ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-12-14 23:50                   ` [alsa-devel] " Laurent Pinchart
2010-12-14 23:50                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-12-21 16:49                     ` [alsa-devel] " Hans Verkuil
2010-12-14 13:31             ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-12-14 13:31               ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-12-14 13:54               ` [alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai
2010-12-14 13:54                 ` Takashi Iwai
2010-12-14 14:25               ` [alsa-devel] " Laurent Pinchart
2010-12-14 14:25                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-12-14 15:30                 ` [alsa-devel] " Clemens Ladisch
2010-12-14 15:30                   ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-12-14 23:30                 ` Raymond Yau
2010-12-14 14:51               ` [alsa-devel] " Hans Verkuil
2010-12-14 14:57                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-12-14 14:57                   ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-12-14 14:49           ` [alsa-devel] " Sakari Ailus
2010-11-25 13:36   ` Mark Brown
2010-11-25 15:40     ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25 15:49       ` Mark Brown
2010-11-26 14:13         ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-26 14:14           ` Mark Brown
2010-11-28 12:34             ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-28 15:57               ` Hans Verkuil
2010-11-25  2:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 04/12] media: Entity graph traversal Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25  2:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 05/12] media: Reference count and power handling Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25 13:49   ` Mark Brown
2010-11-25 15:43     ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25 17:49       ` Sakari Ailus
2010-11-25 21:47         ` Mark Brown
2010-11-28 12:33           ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-28 18:25             ` Mark Brown
2010-11-25  2:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 06/12] media: Media device information query Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25  2:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 07/12] media: Entities, pads and links enumeration Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25  2:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 08/12] media: Links setup Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25  2:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 09/12] media: Entity locking and pipeline management Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25 13:53   ` Mark Brown
2010-11-25 15:47     ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2010-11-25  2:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 10/12] v4l: Add a media_device pointer to the v4l2_device structure Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25  2:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 11/12] v4l: Make video_device inherit from media_entity Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25 11:38   ` Hans Verkuil
2010-11-25 14:37     ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25  2:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 12/12] v4l: Make v4l2_subdev " Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25 14:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 00/12] Media controller (core and V4L2) Mark Brown
2010-11-26 14:07   ` Laurent Pinchart
     [not found] ` <201012031119.36771.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
     [not found]   ` <201012031306.18520.hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
2010-12-03 13:50     ` [RFC/PATCH v6 03/12] media: Entities, pads and links Laurent Pinchart
2010-12-03 14:54       ` Mark Brown
2010-12-07 17:13         ` Hans Verkuil
2010-12-07 17:55           ` Mark Brown
2010-12-07 18:11             ` Hans Verkuil
2010-12-07 19:03               ` Mark Brown
2010-12-09 12:53                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-12-10 16:35                 ` Sakari Ailus

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