Remove enum in structs from kernel API headers.
The enum is not always equivalent with int on some architectures.
From: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com>
Add four new information flags SNDRV_SEQ_PORT_TYPE_HARDWARE, _SOFTWARE,
_SYNTHESIZER, _PORT for sequencer ports. This makes it easier for apps
like Rosegarden to make policy decisions based on the port type.
Add the internal start_pending state in the rate plugin for supporting
delayed start in the case no data is committed to slave PCM.
This fixes the problem of CPU hog with artsd.
Fixed the segfault in the error path of snd_pcm_hook_add_conf()
(calling invalid install_func pointer).
Also, added the missing snd_dlclose() to release the handle properly.
The fix to enable finer sync of dmix in delay callback seems
rather harmful for some apps like xmms on SMP.
The problem of aoss was solved by max_periods=0, so better to
revert this change.
Sync pointers in delay callback in dmix. This solves some problems
of aoss with apps that don't check poll_revents.
The rate plugin is fixed to call delay of slave appropriately, too.
Introduce "max_periods" option to specify the max number of periods
per buffer to each plugin.
- When max_periods = -1, the fixed buffer size as the slave size is
used (old behavior).
- When max_periods = 0 (or 1), the number of periods is variable
between 2 and the slave buffer size.
- When max_periods greater than 2 is given, it specifies the max
periods of that pcm explicitly.
When no option is given in the PCM defintion, the value
"defaults.pcm.dmix_max_periods" is referred as default.
The default value is 0, as defined in alsa.conf.
You can override this in ~/.asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf as you like.
Created a new rate converter plugin SDK.
A rate converter can be replaced as an extra plugin now.
The default rate converter is a built-in linear converter.
You can find a sample external converter in alsa-plugins package.
Fixed the noisy output of dmix with two (or less) periods.
The dmix tends to give noise or XRUN when running with two periods
because of its implementation nature. To avoid this, the start
position is aligned to the period size, so that the updates are synced
with interrupts of slave PCM.
Fix the PCM auto-start conditions
- The capture stream should be started the PCM anyway before reads
- Fixed the endless poll() when the written size doesn't fit to the
buffer size due to lack of auto-start
