sink: Remove an incorrect FIXME comment.

The problem that the comment mentions doesn't actually
exist, because when the sink latency is changed to a smaller
value, the sink implementor will request the required
rewind.
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Tanu Kaskinen 2012-08-24 16:16:43 +03:00
parent 352130f850
commit 34ab73b9ac

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@ -2426,8 +2426,16 @@ int pa_sink_process_msg(pa_msgobject *o, int code, void *userdata, int64_t offse
pa_sink_input_set_state_within_thread(i, i->state); pa_sink_input_set_state_within_thread(i, i->state);
/* The requested latency of the sink input needs to be /* The requested latency of the sink input needs to be fixed up and
* fixed up and then configured on the sink */ * then configured on the sink. If this causes the sink latency to
* go down, the sink implementor is responsible for doing a rewind
* in the update_requested_latency() callback to ensure that the
* sink buffer doesn't contain more data than what the new latency
* allows.
*
* XXX: Does it really make sense to push this responsibility to
* the sink implementors? Wouldn't it be better to do it once in
* the core than many times in the modules? */
if (i->thread_info.requested_sink_latency != (pa_usec_t) -1) if (i->thread_info.requested_sink_latency != (pa_usec_t) -1)
pa_sink_input_set_requested_latency_within_thread(i, i->thread_info.requested_sink_latency); pa_sink_input_set_requested_latency_within_thread(i, i->thread_info.requested_sink_latency);
@ -2438,19 +2446,11 @@ int pa_sink_process_msg(pa_msgobject *o, int code, void *userdata, int64_t offse
/* We don't rewind here automatically. This is left to the /* We don't rewind here automatically. This is left to the
* sink input implementor because some sink inputs need a * sink input implementor because some sink inputs need a
* slow start, i.e. need some time to buffer client * slow start, i.e. need some time to buffer client
* samples before beginning streaming. */ * samples before beginning streaming.
*
/* FIXME: Actually rewinding should be requested before * XXX: Does it really make sense to push this functionality to
* updating the sink requested latency, because updating * the sink implementors? Wouldn't it be better to do it once in
* the requested latency updates also max_rewind of the * the core than many times in the modules? */
* sink. Now consider this: a sink has a 10 s buffer and
* nobody has requested anything less. Then a new stream
* appears while the sink buffer is full. The new stream
* requests e.g. 100 ms latency. That request is forwarded
* to the sink, so now max_rewind is 100 ms. When a rewind
* is requested, the sink will only rewind 100 ms, and the
* new stream will have to wait about 10 seconds before it
* becomes audible. */
/* In flat volume mode we need to update the volume as /* In flat volume mode we need to update the volume as
* well */ * well */