Re: [PATCH] azt3328 fatal deadlock fix (very rare, though)

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At Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:06:30 +0200,
Andreas Mohr wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:59:01PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:45:34 +0200,
> > Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > > 
> > > > BTW, do you still keep CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL for AZT3328 driver?
> > > > If it works for you well, we can remove that flag since there is no
> > > > many bug reports.
> > > 
> > > Been thinking about that before (since the driver is almost as
> > > feature-complete as it can get with an entirely undocumented card),
> > > but I wanted to run the Wine audio test suite on it directly before
> > > removing the flag (since that could easily reveal some issues due to
> > > much more varied sound traffic), but I haven't managed to do that yet.
> > 
> > The reason I asked is because I'm adding a new configure option
> > --with-experimental to toggle on/off CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL for
> > alsa-driver tree.
> 
> Ah. Nice option, but this probably means that all CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
> drivers won't get built by default, right?

No, I'll set it on as default (for avoiding confusion).

> In which case I'd have to act in my driver's area, since it certainly
> absolutely should get built by default.
> 
> > Also, from my understanding, CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL refers to stability
> > of the driver.
> 
> I'd think so too, which is why I wanted to do the Wine test since I'm
> not absolutely 130% certain that my driver is stable. It is certainly
> 99.9% stable, but there are still some remaining tiny nagging doubts...

OK, it's your baby :)

> > > Oh, and needless to say it's a *very good* idea in general to run the
> > > Wine test suite on all sorts of ALSA drivers...
> > 
> > That's true.  We'd need own sound test suite, too.
> 
> Oh, ALSA doesn't have anything here yet?
> That's pretty crucial if you want to guarantee a certain service quality
> over the full range of ALSA sound drivers...
> (but I'm stating the obvious here ;)

Well, we have "standard" programs that can be used for various tests,
such as speaker-test.  But, they are not bundled as "test suite".

A set of neat shell scripts would be really appreciated.


Takashi

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