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    staging: line6: separate handling of buffer allocation and stream startup · 0ca54888
    Markus Grabner authored
    There are several features of the Line6 USB driver which require PCM
    data to be exchanged with the device:
    *) PCM playback and capture via ALSA
    *) software monitoring (for devices without hardware monitoring)
    *) optional impulse response measurement
    However, from the device's point of view, there is just a single
    capture and playback stream, which must be shared between these
    subsystems. It is therefore necessary to maintain the state of the
    subsystems with respect to PCM usage. We define several constants of
    the form LINE6_BIT_PCM_<subsystem>_<direction>_<resource> with the
    following meanings:
    *) <subsystem> is one of
    -) ALSA: PCM playback and capture via ALSA
    -) MONITOR: software monitoring
    -) IMPULSE: optional impulse response measurement
    *) <direction> is one of
    -) PLAYBACK: audio output (from host to device)
    -) CAPTURE: audio input (from device to host)
    *) <resource> is one of
    -) BUFFER: buffer required by PCM data stream
    -) STREAM: actual PCM data stream
    
    The subsystems call line6_pcm_acquire() to acquire the (shared)
    resources needed for a particular operation (e.g., allocate the buffer
    for ALSA playback or start the capture stream for software monitoring).
    When a resource is no longer needed, it is released by calling
    line6_pcm_release(). Buffer allocation and stream startup are handled
    separately to allow the ALSA kernel driver to perform them at
    appropriate places (since the callback which starts a PCM stream is not
    allowed to sleep).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarkus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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